Press Note Eng Dt: 21/02/2011 on Jabardaan Gadhvi
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OFFICE OF THE LEADER OF OPPOSITION
Gujarat Vidhansabha, Gandhinagar.
Press Note 21stFebruary, 2011
- Injustice by Gujarat government drives common man of to self immolation.
- Jabardaan Gadhvi of Kutch immolated himself after several attempts to get just a piece of information. He was entitled legally and their was no response despite representations from bottom to top.
- The government is vibrant for big industrialists but is still silent for common man.
- The government which runs after handful of industrialists neglects the common man to an extent that he if forced to immolate himself.
Jabardaan Gadhvi was forced for immolate self outside a mamlatdar office in Kutch district against injustice by the state government. It is the most shameful incident of Swarnim year when the state government and its administration are sleeping until a common man fighting for justice has to self immolate.
Condemning the incident Leader of opposition Shaktisinh Gohil said that industrialists were given valuable land at cheap rates in the name of Vibrant Gujarat but a common man has to give up his life when he does not get details of his land for which he is entitled legally. He had made representations upto Chief Minister but to no avail and dejected he killed himself. The government and administration should think about the common man and it is very shameful that in the golden year such an incident has happened when a man has to kill himself for his problems. It is sad that the government and machinery have become so insensitive.
Shri Gadhvi wanted information about his ancestral land and was fighting for his rights lawfully under the RTI act but he was denied justice. It is condemnable that despite representations to the highest authority against injustice the voice of common man goes unheard.
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