Sikhs March Against RSS Attacks / Genocide agianst Christains in Orissa

March against attacks on Christians

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By TNS | Sep 16, 2008 - 10:37:53 PM

Chandigarh, September 16: SAD (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann today participated in a candlelit vigil organised by the National Christian League, Chandigarh, expressing solidarity with the minority community in the wake of communal attacks on Christians in Orissa.

Around 200 protesters held the march near parade ground in Sector 17 here this afternoon. Mann led the march.

He said: “The police acted as mere spectators to the accesses being committed on the Christians for six months and instead of helping them, they abetted the violence and never intervened to save the hapless Christians and their institutions.”

They handed over a memorandum to Punjab Governor Gen S.F. Rodrigues (retd) highlighting the plight of the Christian community in Orissa and demanded immediate suspension of chief secretary, home secretary and director general of police, Orissa.

“The Christians have been chased and hunted like animals, nuns raped, priests and religious workers injured in hundreds. Over 40 churches have been destroyed, as we gather data from the victims and the kin of the dead,” stated league president Jagdish Masih.

“The perpetrator of violence is the Sangh Parivar and its component elements — the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Bajrang Dal, the Vanvasi Kalyan Sangh and groups connected to the VHP”, Masih alleged.

They also insisted that the CBI should investigate the incidents and Kandhmal district of Orissa be handed over to the Indian Army.

Compensation must also be given to the next of kin of those killed and the churches should be rebuilt.

They demanded the setting up of a fast-track criminal court to try those found guilty of violence.

Call to Ban The RSS Within India

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PATNA: Charging BJP President L K Advani of garnering Hindu votes by raking up the Ayodhya temple controversy and seeking a ban on SIMI, the Samajwadi Party on Wednesday demanded a similar ban on the RSS for "vitiating the atmosphere of communal harmony in the country."

"If SIMI must be banned, so must the RSS for vitiating the atmosphere of communal harmony in the country," Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav told reporters at Patna airport after making an aerial survey of flood-hit districts.

Dubbing the BJP as 'Bharat Jalao Party,' Yadav said it has always played divisive politics and cited its role in the recent shrine land agitation in Jammu. He said he would meet the Prime Minister tomorrow and seek central assistance for the lakhs marooned in the state.

He thanked the Centre for declaring the floods in Bihar as a "national calamity" and hoped that all governments would contribute to the cause of the flood victims in 16 north Bihar districts.

Accompanied by party General Secretary Amar Singh, Yadav said he would seek a reply from Orissa Chief Minister Navin Patnaik as to why action had not been taken against VHP workers for attacking Christians in his state.

Referring to Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's indefinite sit-in agitation at the Nano project site in West Bengal's Singur, Amar Singh said the Uttar Pradesh government has provided land to the Tatas at Barabanki after they held direct talks with farmers.

"Anil Ambani, too, talked to the farmers directly for setting up his plant and I have no hesitation in saying that I will use my contacts for providing land for setting up of such industries in Uttar Pradesh and other parts of the country," Singh said.





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Paswan for ban on RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal

Strongly condemning the attack on Christians allegedly by Sangh Parivar activists in Orissa, LJP leader and Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Tesday sought a ban on RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal. The Lok Janshakti Party will hold a demonstration in New Delhi on September four protesting the violence in Orissa which was "shameful and dangerous for national integrity", Paswan told reporters in New Delhi.

To a question as to why he opposed ban on SIMI, while demanding such an action against the Sangh Parivar outfits, he said "my suggestion is to set up an independent inquiry commission that will analyse the activities of various organisations and recommend ban if they are involved in any anti-national work".

The commission with social scientists and human rights activists as its member can study the role of various organisations in spreading terror and communal tension.

"If SIMI has to be banned, then why not VHP, Bajrang Dal or RSS," Paswan, who had shared power with BJP till 2002, shot back, adding that until there were evidences of SIMI's involvement in terror acts, it should not be banned.

On Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati declining to recommend CBI probe into the Kanpur blast incident in which two Bajrang Dal activists were killed, he said that it showed that the BSP supremo was going soft towards the BJP.

Paswan, who had shared power with BJP till 2002, hit back the saffron party for condemning his suggestion to grant citizenship to Bangladeshis in India, saying that it had failed to identify them when it led a coalition at the Centre.