Anti-terrorism Campaign for Students Begins in Mangalore
 
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Mangalore, Jan 13: “A man hated his neighbour and wanted to cause as much trouble to him as possible. So he brought a dog and made it go mad so that it bites the neighbour. The mad dog bit the neighbour but it tore apart its own master too.” This was the anecdote spiritual prodigy Sri Sri Ravishankar stated to bring out the state of Pakistan with regard to terrorism.

Inaugurating the ‘Anti-terrorism awareness campaign for students’ organised by Department of Higher Education as a part of Vivekananda Jayanthi celebration on Monday in Mangalore, Guruji said Pakistan once domesticated terrorism to bite India but today, it is suffering due to the same mad dog and the intention of General Zia-Ul-Haq of bleeding India with a thousand cut seems to be boomeranging on Pakistan itself.

Quoting example of Azamgarh, he said terrorist activities were going on in full swing in Azamgarh region and the local residents knew about it but never spoke out. Hence, the intelligence could get evidences on the same only decades after terrorism had rooted itself strong. Nanavati Commission too took nine years to call Godhra incident a terrorist attack. During all these nine years, the terrorists must have been laughing at us.
 
 
Minister for Higher Education Aravinda Limbavali presided over the programme and said that noticing the point that large number of well educated and talented young blood is being taken into the terror folds, this awareness campaign is being held.

JD(S) SEES COMMUNAL ANGLE

Bangalore, DHNS: The JD(S) on Monday condemned the State government’s decision to organise an awareness campaign against terrorism on the occasion of Swami Vivekananda’s birth day celebrations in colleges, alleging that it is an effort to divide students on communal lines.

Addressing reporters, the party spokesperson Y S V Datta alleged that government is misusing Vivekananda’s name to further its ‘saffron agenda.’ Vivekananda is being projected as a Hindu leader to divide students on communal lines, he charged.

The Higher Education Department is organising the awareness campaign “Wipe out terrorism, save the country” in all colleges from Monday.

The party has warned to take up an agitation if the government fails to drop the awareness campaign.