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violence by looking at the problem from present day context. My party underlines the
need for adequate representation for minorities in all arms of states, conduct police and
para military police and need to be above board while dealing with the sensitive events
and incidents. All kinds of human right violations need to be quickly probed and the
violations shall be severely dealt with Justice enforcement mechanism should be
confidence inspiring and there has to be separate Courts to deal with the cases of
communal violence. In nutshell, minorities feel secured under the umbrella of the
States. As for the august gathering is aware of the threat posed by left wing
extremism in major states of our country, I have no hesitation to say that when I was
Home Minister of AP, I had introduced many innovative policies and programmes to
curb left wing extremism in Andhra Pradesh. I am happy that they are now giving
results and the Hon’ble Union Home Minister himself said on many occasions that
extremism in AP has come down by 60%. So I suggest that the success story of
Andhra Pradesh be taken as a model for other affected states. My party is deeply
distressed by the recent communal incidents and terrorist activities in some parts of the
country. We have strongly condemned them and all those responsible for the same.
Stringent action is called for by the both central and concerned state Governments to
put down an end to them.
Thank You Sir.
Home Minister: May I now request Dr. Valsan Thampu to make his statement.
Rev. Prof. Valsan Thampu
Hon’ble Prime Minister, Members of Cabinet, Leaders of Political Parties, Hon’ble
Members of the National Integration Council, in so far as we have a symbol under the
auspices of National Integration Council, which was fathered by Pandit Nehru. I would
like to begin by paying my homage to him by recalling his words “if anyone wants to
attack minorities in this country, they will have to do so over my dead body”. Mr.
Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru was not saying this in order to appease a constituency.
He was declaring his faith in secularism, his commitments to the dynamism and the
dignity of democracy in this country. What is at stake today is not mainly the welfare of
the minorities or the confidence building among minorities , which are important. What
is at stake today is future of India, secularism and the democratic culture of this country.
Therefore we plead with you that I have attended the last National Integration Council
meeting, this is a second time, we have gone through anatomies, analysis, expression of
concerns. Dear Prime Minister, the time has come for us to move on from concerns
to a commitment of actions. I don’t want to make a big speech. I have gone
through the material given to me, it is a wonderful document which gives tremendous
guidelines to promote National Integration. I suggest a simple exercise to this
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