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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (MM/SP)
Mangalore, Sep 19: Three Catholic institutions in the city have been receiving threat calls from the Sangh Paivar activists. Therefore, the district administration should arrange necessary security for these institutions, demanded All India Congress Committee general secretary and former union minister Margaret Alva.
Addressing the media persons on Friday September 19, she said that the St Aloysius College, Fathima Retreat House and the Fr Muller institutions have received the threat calls from unknown persons. "The callers informed them that suicide bombers will attack these institutions. As such, the district administration should take these threats seriously and arrange necessary security for them," she urged.
Further, she pointed out that the Sangh Parivar is making arrangements to hold a convention in the city on September 21. If the district administration grants permission for this convention, there will be further havoc in and around the city. The district administration should prevent such unpleasant developments, by refusing permission to the Sangh Parivar leaders to conduct any convention in the city, she urged.
District deputy commissioner M Maheshwar Rao has defended the police action, when she had called him to plead for the relase of the arrested Catholics, Alva revealed. "The DC said that the policemen had to resort to caning the protestors to to disperse the crowd from the road. The roads get blocked in the state and national capitals, when the people stage protests. The roads also get routinely blocked, during marriage and political processions. The police never resort to caning on them. But the police purposefully resorted to lathi charge at Milagres," she charged.
"No magistrate was there, when the police resorted to caning and burst tear gas shells. A nun has lost an eye because of the brutality of the police. The state government has failed to assure fair justice to all the communities of the society. If the state government fails to protect all the communities, then it has no right to continue in office, she warned.