GUJARAT-State-Sponsored Attack on Pani Parishad

State-Sponsored Attack on 'Pani Parishad' Shripad Dharmadhikary ON May 8, about 40-50 hooligans stormed into the Shreyas Foundation Hail in Ahmedabad where the 'Pani Parishad Convention on Water' organised by the Jal Raksha Abhiyan (JRA) and Abhiyan weekly was in progress. The hooligans were shouting slogans like "Medha Patkar vapas jad and 'Narmada Yojana banke rahegi, etc And even as the keynote address was being delivered by B B Vohra, they snatched away the microphone, started destroying property, beating up and threatening participants, and declared that "all those opposing the Narmada Project must leave the hall immediately