Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008
Subject: Citizen's Delegation tells President Patil 50,000 Christians hiding in forests of Orissa from maraudng Hindutva mobs, 4,000 houses burnt
PRESS NOTE
New Delhi, September 1, 2008
* Citizen's Delegation meets President Pratibha Patil; Demands that Indian Government use Article 355 to force Orissa administration to protect Christians
* Violence continues even now, President is told by delegation led by Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, Maulana Mahmood Madani, MP, and Orissa Archbishop Cheenath.
* 300 villages burnt, 4,014 houses destroyed, 50,000 Christians hiding in Forests in a week
A Citizens Delegation met President Pratibha Patil on Monday morning calling upon her to enforce Article 355 of the Constitution of India on Orissa so that the Chief Minister Naveen Pattnaik administration takes adequate measures to protect Christians in the state from Hindutva violence..
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