Gandhiniagar: Lawyer Kartikeya Tanna has shared his thoughts on Statue of Unity after visiting the place. Presented here is the video he has made and a note he has penned down on Facebook: Breathtaking. Magnificent. Unbelievable. These are the feelings I got when I visited the remarkable Statue of Unity, a 182 metre tall statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of the most instrumental freedom fighters in India's independence movement and the first Deputy Prime Minister as well as Hom...Read More

By Kartikeya Tanna Ahmedabad, 18 October 2012 According to a PTI report, the Supreme Court stayed further proceedings against former Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah in the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case until November 23. Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Shah, asked the SC to reject a separate FIR in the Tulsi Prajapati murder case since the case came to light only during CBI probe into the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. Therefore, accordi...Read More

By Kartikeya Tanna Ahmedabad, 17 October 2012 Union Minister for Law and Justice Salman Khurshid has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons, the latest being for a trust which has received grants based on allegedly forged letters. That he hasn’t quite reacted sensibly in midst of the loud clamour for his resignation shows his glaring inability to handle the heat that Indian politics exudes. But this is not the first time Khurshid has found himself with his...Read More

By Kartikeya Tanna Ahmedabad, 12 October 2012 Pursuant to Sachar Committee’s report on the social, economic and educational status of Muslims in India, the Prime Minister had launched a 15-point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities under which a scheme for awarding pre-metric educational scholarships to children belonging to five specific minorities was initiated. The purpose of this Scheme was to “encourage parents from minority communities to send their schoo...Read More

By Kartikeya Tanna Ahmedabad, 24 August 2012 As DeshGujarat has extensively reported throughout this month, the Gujarat Congress has come up with a scheme for providing low-cost housing to Gujarati women in urban areas. Charmingly titled Ghar nu ghar, this scheme invited Gujarati women from various urban areas to fill out a form (a copy of a form is attached towards the end of this article) and register themselves to realize their dream of having a home. As one dwells more into the m...Read More

By Kartikeya Tanna Ahmedabad, 31 July 2012 Earlier this month, on July 3, the National Commission for Minorities dismissed the complaint filed by Ms. Niyazbibi Bannumiyan on the grounds that it does not have jurisdiction to look into the matter and investigate it “as requested” in the complaint. Ms Bannumiyan had primarily stated that her family, which was escorted to a relief camp during the riots, was unable to return to its village after a mob destroyed their home and...Read More

By Kartikeya Tanna Ahmedabad, 22 May 2012 Gujarat Governor Kamala Beniwal is caught in yet another storm with allegations of corruption in, what BJP member Kirit Somaiya refers to as, a “1,000-crore land scam”. In overruling the decision of the registrars of the Rajasthan cooperatives department that land of cooperative society could not be allotted to individual members, the Kisan Samuhik Krishi Sahkari Samiti allotted developed land to 18 of its members including ...Read More