New Delhi: With violence against Christians continuing unabated in Orissa, the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) today demanded a CBI probe to nail the culprits behind the communal violence in the tribal state.
"I am writing to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get the entire gamut of the communal clashes in Orissa investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation," party chief Ram Vilas Paswan said.
The union minister, who recently visited Orissa, also smelt a rat in "transfers of sincere District Magistrates (DM) and Superintendents of Police (SP) from the affected areas" when the violence broke out.
"The BJD-BJP government led by Naveen Patnaik transferred the officers, who were impartial and would have worked hard to stop the communal violence," he said.
The number of victims who are leaving their villages to take shelter in relief camps is rising. The state officials are not admitting them in camps and asked them to return to villages, where they are threatened either to convert to Hinduism or face the consequences, Paswan charged.
"Most of the Christians killed in the Orissa violence were Dalits and they were well to do. It appears that the fanatics led by (Bajrang) Dal and VHP attacked them due to jealousy," he alleged, adding a number of Dalit Christian women and members for SC/ST associations met him in Bhuvaneshwar and narrated their plight.
In the letter to the PM, LJP has repeated its demand for ban on Bajrang Dal and VHP besides a compensation of Rs 10 lakh and Rs 5 lakh each for family members of the deceased and the injured. Christians returning to their homes should be given security guarantee, he added.
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"I am writing to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get the entire gamut of the communal clashes in Orissa investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation," party chief Ram Vilas Paswan said.
The union minister, who recently visited Orissa, also smelt a rat in "transfers of sincere District Magistrates (DM) and Superintendents of Police (SP) from the affected areas" when the violence broke out.
"The BJD-BJP government led by Naveen Patnaik transferred the officers, who were impartial and would have worked hard to stop the communal violence," he said.
The number of victims who are leaving their villages to take shelter in relief camps is rising. The state officials are not admitting them in camps and asked them to return to villages, where they are threatened either to convert to Hinduism or face the consequences, Paswan charged.
"Most of the Christians killed in the Orissa violence were Dalits and they were well to do. It appears that the fanatics led by (Bajrang) Dal and VHP attacked them due to jealousy," he alleged, adding a number of Dalit Christian women and members for SC/ST associations met him in Bhuvaneshwar and narrated their plight.
In the letter to the PM, LJP has repeated its demand for ban on Bajrang Dal and VHP besides a compensation of Rs 10 lakh and Rs 5 lakh each for family members of the deceased and the injured. Christians returning to their homes should be given security guarantee, he added.
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