By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,
Bhopal: Popular Front of India chairman E. Abubacker has sought the Union Government’s intervention to stop the still continuing assaults against the members of Christian community in the tribal areas of eastern Indian state of Orissa.
The fundamentalist Hindutva communal outfits are misusing the killing of a Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati, reportedly by Maoist groups, as a cover to assault the Christian minorities.
Abubacker in a statement, issued by Popular Front Media Secretary through a Press release via e-mail, said the Government of Orissa, which is under the control of rightist Bharatiya Janata Party, (BJP), is allowing the fascist and fundamentalist forces to terrorize the poor, the marginalized and the minorities of the State. The role of the state government machinery, especially the police in the recent atrocities against Christians could not be overlooked, he pointed out.
Hence, the Union Government has to ensure that the security of the lives and properties of the minorities in Orissa are not in peril, Abubacker appealed.
Abubacker called upon all secular forces and the religious minorities to join hands for exposing and checking the real threat to the nation, that is the “Sangh Parivar” brand of Hindutva fascism. ([email protected])