Cong seeks Guv's intervention

It was attempt to create communal clashes

KPCC General Secretary Ivan D’Souza urged Governor to intervene to prevent the spread of Uppinangady incident in Dakshina Kannada and also to prevent the same from taking a shape of communal clash.

Addressing a press meet here on Tuesday, he said that the Uppinangady incident was systematically planned and it was an attempt to create communal clashes in the district.

“Everyone in the country has a right to follow the religion of their choice. Targeting one community with derogatory words is anti-democratic,” he said.

Those who had flayed the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill 2011, even before it was tabled in the parliament, are showing how essential the Bill is for the district. He stated that the BJP was supporting right wing organisations in order to achieve political mileage. “The police acted helplessly during the incident. This is not only a failure of BJP administration, it is also the failure of the police department,” he said. The police should act impartially.

He alleged that District-in-Charge Minister is mum over the incident and did not have the courtesy to visit the houses of those who were injured in the mishap. Though Home Minister R Ashok had stated that it was a minor incident, he said the government should not take the incident lightly. The government should act sternly. The Home Minister and Chief Minister should visit Uppinangady to assess the situation.