A group of Christian organisations asked United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi to advice the government to send army units to Orissa to maintain law and order in the wake of attacks on the minority community in the state.
The organisations also demanded that a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry should be ordered into
the murder of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader and the ensuing violence to trace the guilty besides providing immediate compensation to the victims of the violence.
"The Union government must authorise the army to move its troops into affected blocks of Kandhamal district where