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Congress threatens stir for ouster of Sena-BJP govt

The Congress today threatened to launch an agitation in Maharashtra and use every other possible democratic means to press for the ouster of the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government in the state. It would also demand action against all those indicted by the Justice B N Srikrishna Commission for the December 1992-January 1993 Bombay riots, state party president Prataprao Bhosale said today.

Bhosale told the media in Bombay that a Congress delegation will meet Governor P C Alexander at Raj Bhavan tomorrow to press the demand following the indictment of the Shiv Sena leaders by the Commission. If they failed to get justice from him they would take up the issue with President K R Narayanan, he said.

If necessary the party would also "knock the doors of the courts" to secure implementation of the Commission's recommendations.

He said that, according to the Commission's findings, the present rulers themselves were responsible for the riots and, therefore, Chief Minister Manohar Joshi and the alliance government led by him (Joshi) had no moral right to continue in office.

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