NCM urges Gujarat govt to restore
communal amity before LS polls
The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has asked the Gujarat government to deal with communal violence with ''an iron hand and enforce total communal amity'' before the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.
''The ugly communal designs behind the latest holocaust in
Ahmedabad are too naked to be probed,'' the NCM chairman, Tahir Mahmood,
said in a statement today.
He said the commission had made very genuine efforts to sensitize the
state government to its constitutional responsibility of closing its
doors to communal frenzy by weeding out mischief-mongers. ''Had even
half of the measures suggested by us been translated into
action, Ahmedabad would not have been burning again,'' Dr Mahmood added.
The communal volatility of Gujarat ''hangs like the sword of
Domacles on the head of the minorities. It is most unfortunate that
his dubious distinction should have been earned by the home state of
the father of the nation who had laid down his life for the sake of
the minorities,'' he said.
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