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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP/MM)

Mangalore, Sep 19: Congress leader Siddaramaiah said that his party will decide about the future course of action within a couple of days, if the government does not backtrack from its stand and order judicial probe into the unsavoury incidents that occurred in the city and nearby places.

He was speaking to reporters after visiting various affected places in Mangalore and Beltangady on Thursday September 18. "The state government should conduct a thorough inquiry through a sitting High Court judge. There is no difference between the CoD (Corps of Detective) and the police. Inefficient and non-influential people have been appointed to the CoD which is under the jurisdiction of the home ministry. Thus, one cannot expect any unbiased enquiry from them," he said.

"We will meet at Bangalore and hold discussions. A report will be presented to the Governor on the failing law and order situation. The report will also be handed over to the Prime Minister, union home minister and party supremo Sonia Gandhi, Siddaramaiah said.

The incidents in which the Sangh Parivar organizations brazenly wielded lethal weapons and conducted raids without fearing legal consequences, have been a blot on the history of the entire state. They were pre-planned attacks supported by the state government. This is clear from the fact that the Bajrangdal leaders have not been arrested even after they confessed that they were behind the attacks. All these attacks were held under the directions of the chief minister and home minister, he alleged.

He described the attack on churches as an 'attack on human civilization' and added that he had not seen an irresponsible chief minister like Yeddyurappa. He went on to call Dr V S Acharya one of the weakest and inefficient home ministers the state had ever seen.

Siddaramaiah alleged that the attack on churches was a pre-planned, well-organized, act which was owned up to by the Bajarang Dal.  He said that the police were pressurized by the government and were instructed to not arrest any Sangh Parivar activist. Earlier, he   visited the vandalized churches and other such places.

DK District Congress Committee president B Ramanath Rai, ex-MP Vinaykumar Sorake, Vasant Salian, Suresh Ballal, Ivan D'Souza, Shashidhar Hegde and others were present at the press conference.

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