Author: Express News service
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: August 25, 2002
Gujarat Minority Finance and Development
Corporation Chairman Ganibhai Qureshi has sent a legal notice to Chief
Election Commissioner J M Lyngdoh for snubbing him publicly and calling
him a "government agent" during the EC team's visit to Vadodara.
The notice threatens legal action
if the CEC does not, reply within a week. It was despatched to the CEC
at his official address on August 16. Qureshi has been a member of the
executive committee of the BJP for the last 17 years and was national vice-president
of BJP minority morcha from 1999-2000. He is also an executive committee
member of the BJP's Gujarat unit.
The notice signed by Qureshi's advocate
Shreekant P Hasurker states: "When you (the CEC) visited Rajarani Talav
area, you looked at my client and requested his assistance for the factual
situation about government aid to riot victims. But when my client attempted
to explain the help given to the victims, you asked my client to shut up
and called him a 'government agent'. And then you asked my client to go
away and told him that you did not want to listen him any more.
The notice says Qureshi is a leader
of the Muslim community and has been working as a social worker for the
last two decades in Vadodara and charges the CEC ''with "Lowering his (Qureshi's)
prestige in society".
