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No politics in anti-terror fight
HT Correspondent
Gorakhpur, February 22 [2007]
SENIOR LEADER of the Communist Party of India (M) and Politburo Subhasini Ali stressed dealing communal forces with an iron hand unmindful of political gain or loss.
Without naming anyone, she said certain sections were fanning up communal tension in eastern UP and running a parallel government.
The confrontational posture they had taken with successive state governments and the administration would posed further problems in days ahead, she feared.
Ali was in the city today after a spot inspection of Raza Nagar, Sadhua and other localities of the Kushinagar district which were vandalised by communal forces.
Talking to mediapersons she recalled that two years earlier she had sounded the alarm that communal forces were trying to repeat Gujarat in eastern UP and the region had emerged as a new laboratory of ‘Hindutva’.
Responding to a question she said the CPI-M had launched a movement to counter communal forces and revealed that general secretary of her party Prakash Karat had suggested to Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav on telephone to deal with communal forces with an iron hand after eruption of violence in the region. Justifying the arrest of BJP MP Yogi Adityanath, she said no one was above the law and anyone trying to take law in his hands would have to face such action.
She reiterated that communal forces were running a parallel government in eastern UP, which is a dangerous sign.
She lambasted Kushinagar police who, she said, were mute spectators when miscreants and rioters were setting ablaze four-dozen shops.
The Communist leader said Kushinagar administration had failed to control the situation and demanded immediate transfer of district magistrate and SP of Kushinagar.
He said the situation in Kushinagar is hypersensitive and the administration had yet not taken any steps for rehabilitation of those whose houses were set ablaze.
She also handed over a five-point memorandum to the IG Zone and demanded immediate relief for victims of the Kushinagar incident. Sources said she expressed displeasure over the police attitude of not registering FIR of the victims.