Book of Integration Council New - Ministry of Home Affairs

And we could get enough confidence amongst these religious groups. In the recent
past, yes, about 3-4 days back, one another communal incident took place in the State
of Andhra Pradesh in a district called Adilabad, which is very remote and farflung
district in Andhra Pradesh, in a town called, small town called Bainsa, during the Durga
Puja, Durga Procession, there errupted a communal violence, and two minorities and
two Hindus got killed. That, immediately the very effective steps of Government could
see to it that no further instances took place but day before yesterday night, one
another incident took place very closely, very close to this particular town. As of now
we are still not sure whether this is an accident or a communal related violence. But to
give enough confidence to these religious groups, to the minorities groups, the moment
they asked for a CBI enquiry into this incident, because the background is still uncertain.
It may be a communal related thing or it most likely may be an accident also a fire
accident also. So to give enough confidence to these religious groups, as per their
asking, we immediately instituted a CBI inquiry and we also constituted a Judicial probe
into the Bainsa incident that is an incident which took place two days earlier to that and
situation I can say, that by and large is totally under control. Sir, my experience is that
this sort of communal violences or instances are totally, it is not that the states
themselves can control. Most of the times there are origins from outside the state or
from outside the country and in such sort of scenario, the State police inspite of its
being very effective, is quite at loss to control the happenings of it. O.K. when once
something happens, whatever necessary steps will have to take, we will have to take and
we will take. But it is very difficult for State Governments to see to it that this enough
necessary steps are taken, so that these incidents do not happen. That part of the thing
is very difficult for us. But inspite of all that we are in tandem with Government of
India. We give the needful information to them and by and large things are quite
under control. With regard to the Dalit Christians, there is a strong demand from Dalit
Christian organizations, that Dalit Christians also ought to be included into the SCs like
Buddhists have been included. This has been their demand for the past 10-15 years
and my sincere request from the Government of Andhra Pradesh side is that the Dalit
Christians be included as a Scheduled Caste. Sir, by and large, I can say that things are
lot better now, than what they were earlier. There is a general feeling that religions have
to come together. By and large, a common man either a Muslim or a Hindu is not
interested in fighting with each other. They want to have a better living and they want to
have good employment. If only government takes all needful steps to see to it that we
give good employment to them, we give good health to them, we give good education
to them. They are more than happy and that is what is happening in the State of Andhra
Pradesh and I assure you that we work with Govenrment of India in keeping a very
good religious amity.
Thank you.
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