Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Feb14: Addressing a press conference held on Thursday February 12 here, Students Islamic Organization's public relations in-charge Hussain Kodibengre demanded suitable action from all concerned to ensure that the Anti-terrorism Students Meet being held in Manipal on Saturday February 14 is secular in nature. He also expressed himself against the meet being used as a political forum.

Prima facie, the campaign appears to be spearheaded by a political party, as part of a conspiracy of organizations run by communal forces. In this scenario, communal harmony is set to be vitiated further. Instead of preparing the students for anti-terrorism drive, efforts seem to be made to sow the seeds of communal hatred, he apprehended.

The pub attack in Mangalore was like a terrorist attack. But the campaign does not raise this topic. The police terrorism under which innocent youths are harassed in the name of terrorist link, also does not figure in the government's campaign programme, he explained.

Expressing serious reservations over these issues, he demanded for a campaign that promotes communal harmony and urged the concerned to take leaders of all classes into confidence for the success of the campaign.

He hailed the recent Supreme Court verdict that severely denounced ragging in college campuses. "Students Islamic Organization welcomes the verdict," he said. District convener G Shubaib, Farooq Atradi, Adil Hoode, G Asif Malpe, Rizwan udupi etc., were present at the press conference.