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of the country as well. At the same time, the series of terrorist attacks in Delhi as well as
various state capitals poses a severe challenge to our country’s unity and integrity.
Before this NIC meeting, such attacks against the minorities have continued for several
weeks. Infact, the meeting should have been convened much earlier. The Union
Government has a responsibility towards maintaining the unity and integrity of the country,
which has not been discharged in the manner warranted by the deteriorating
situation. The Union Government’s responsibility, particularly so on the issue of protecting
the right to life and security of the tribals and dalits in our country. The Union
Government has failed to intervene in the situation, even after six weeks of continuous
attacks against the Christian minority in Orissa. However, the Agenda circulated for
this meeting is a vast canvas covering all aspects of potential conflict intentions, adversely
affecting National Integration. In this short meeting, it is virtually impossible to
discuss all these issues, however important and relevant they may be. On many of these
issues like the question of social justice and the struggles against the connected caste
based social operations, regional economic imbalances providing grist of the mill of
regional chauvanism adequate facilities for improving the welfare of religious minorities
as enunciated by the Sachar committee report etc. The CPI (Marxist) had a
definite point of view and this has been articulated earlier in the NIC and publically in the
past. I therefore wish to confine today some suggestions to the two issues of these
communal clashes and attacks and the terrorist responses and activities and attacks that
we have witnessing of day. As this reports on attacks on Christian Minority come,
they also come on the grouesome reports of the communal violence in Assam. More
than 50 lives have been lost, a lakh of people have been forced to flee their homes.
These clashes between ethenic Bodo tribals, the local people and the Muslims is a very
grave development, which is taking place in a State, which has repeatedly seen such
disturbances in the past, from which our Hon’ble Prime Minister is elected to the
Parliament and which we think is a very serious threat to the unity of our social fabric.
But more horrific sir, has been the latest report of a six member muslim family being
burnt alive in the Biashaw town in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh, this happened
yesterday. So far 10 lives have been consumed in the communal violence there. In the
Dhule District of Maharashtra, communal violence has taken a toll of many innocent
lives. This is the third case of communal violence in the state of Maharashtra within a
week. Rajasthan continues to be tense, with some reports coming from Udaipur. The
various reports of communal polarization are coming from other part of the country.
The situration in J & K, where communal polarization was sharply aroused,
continues to remain source of concern for the unity, integrity of our country. In
this connection, Sir, the National Commission on Minorities has come out with its
observations on both – Orissa and Karnataka, and in those reports on the attacks
on the Christian Minorities, it has noted that the State Governments have not taken
adequate precautions and since Hon’ble Chief Ministers are here, I am sure, they
will definitely respond to this aspect, but here is not an issue of pointing fingers
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