Bengaluru: When mediapersons met state home minister K J George on Friday, he was flooded with questions regarding communal incidents taking place in some parts of the state.
He asserted that ever since the Congress government came to power, the law and order situation had improved. At the same time, the efforts of miscreants to create communal tension also had increased. Such a conspiracy would not succeed in unsettling the government, he said.
He further said that the BJP leaders behaved as if they were on contractual terms with the Hindu community. They were trying to bring a bad name to the government by creating communal incidents and attempting to create an impression that law and order situation was crumbling. Their attempts to weaken the government would not succeed, he declared.
Continuing his attack on the BJP, he said that the party’s leaders had been behaving as if they were the spokespersons of the entire Hindu population and sought to know if there were no Hindus in Congress and other parties. The present government was voted to power by a majority of Hindus and hence he asked as to how it could be labelled as anti-Hindu.
He pointed out that right from the CM down to legislators, the majority in the Congress party were Hindus. He asked with a touch of sarcasm if the entire community of Hindus had given a power of attorney to the BJP to act or speak on their behalf or they have asked the.party to protect them.
Citing the example of Shivamogga incidents, George said that on the pretext of some slogans reportedly raised during a meeting, stone-pelting was resorted to. This led to a chain reaction which took higher proportions. Ruling out a blanket ban on the PFI, he made it clear that it was not possible to go on banning some or other organization for each incident.
He added that in the case of Hindu Samajotsava in Bengaluru, the entry of Praveen Togadia into the city had been banned. But his speech was aired by the organizers in spite of a ban. It could have been stopped on the spot but the authorities were lenient by only filing cases of violation of the ban. Those involved would face cases now. He also hinted at a plan to set up fast courts to handle such incidents.