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2008-10-03 06:33:42 - Glaxy of political bigwigs poured in to attend the Christians of all denomination of Delhi and NCR protest at Janatr Mantar along with eminent Hindu and Muslim scholars.
2,Oct 2008,New Delhi. The stars of secular political parties came on one platform at 7 Jantar Mantar a protest centre in New Delhi to show their solidarity with Christians communities.Mrs Shiela Dixit,CM of Delhi visited morning hours to the protesting communities and said billions of people are with christian in this secular country,Mr Oscar Fernades,Mr Lalu Parsad,the federal ministers,Mr Sita Ram yechury ,the communist suave, said the matter will be taken up in the coming session of Parliament,Mr JP Aggarwal,MP RS and President of DPCC ,all visited and supported the cause.
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes said they would take up the issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Cabinet meeting tomorrow and see to it that measures are taken to contain violence,two leaders also hinted that the Centre may consider even going beyond Article 355, a rarely used constitutional provision that typically holds out the threat of dismissal of a state government and imposition of President's rule if the warning of the Centre goes unheeded.
"The Prime Minister has just returned. A cabinet meeting is scheduled tomorrow. We will apprise him of your sentiments. We will also request him to either visit the places of occurence himself or send a delegation there," Prasad said.
Charging the BJP and Sangh Parivar outfits with fomenting communal tension, he said "Bajrang Dal is sullying the name of 'Bajrangbali (Lord Mahavir)'. These people have nothing to do either with Ram or Rahim. They are hungry for power and doing these things keeping in mind the upcoming Lok Sabha election." Assuring all support to Christian community, Prasad lauded the role of Christian organisations in spreading education.
Mr MS Bitta,Chairman Anti terrorist group,Mr Teesta Setalvad,Mr Khaliq GS Lok Shakti,Mr Hannar Moola,Mr Tarun Tejpal,Mr Kuldeep Nayyar,Mr Jawed Naqvi,Mr NKSagar,Mr Ashok Jetley also participated on the last day of their peaceful protest.Thousand of christians thronged the Protest point at 2 PM from Delhi and NCR to carry out peaceful march from Jantar Mantar to Gandhi Samadhi,the protesters reached the Samadhi 6 PM and Bishop,Archbishop of various cities and Swami Agnivesh spoke to inspire the brotherhood,peace and tranquility and fight the communal violence with spirit of non-violence.
Setalvad enumerated various incidents of anti-Christian violence in India and urged the country's middle class to speak up. She said middle-class people have benefited greatly from services offered by Christians but remain silent when their benefactors are attacked.
Swami Agnivesh, a Hindu reformist leader who addressed a prayer meeting near the Gandhi mausoleum, decried those who have killed Christians and raped nuns as the "biggest enemies" of God. He blamed Gandhi's killers as the ones behind the attacks on Christians in Orissa.
Several marchers said the rally is to impress upon authorities the need to take firm action to end attacks on Christians.
Archbishop Vincent Concessao of Delhi said he wants the federal government to take control. "We want the government to establish peace in Orissa," he said.
Sister Sheeba said she regretted the government had done little to control the violence. "I hope the rally and the dharna (sit-in protest) would at least open the eyes of the government," the Franciscan Clarist nun said.
Bishop Joseph Mar Bernabas of the Mar Thoma Church asserted the government cannot go on ignoring Christians even though they are a minority. "We are part of the nation," he said. "We love our country."
The peaceful rally reaffirmed Christians as a peace-loving community, said Father Jayan Thomas of the same Church, an offshoot of the Orthodox Church.
Christians were on seven days sit on dharna from 26 Sept to 2Oct 2008,a peaceful protest against the atricities committed on Dalit chirtians in states of Orissa,Karnataka,Kerala.MP and other states.
Orissa has fourteen districts affected out of thirty with 300 villages saw the violence in its worst and fifty thousand peoples were brought in the refugee camps.In all more than 4600 houses burnt,fifty eight peoples killed including two pastors and 10 religious person injured and total of 18000 injured,2 women gangraped and 151 church destroyed and theirteen schools,college destroyed.
Karantaka has four district under vandal and about ninteen churches were damaged or saw its arson,20 nuns,women injured.Couples of churches destroyed in the State Uttarkhand,New Delhi, four churches destroyed in Mandhya Pradesh,Kerala,Tamil Naidu and nuns,pastors harrassed,beaten are Chattisgarh, Uttarkhand Punjab, Bihar.
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