Congress slams BJP Karnataka government for Mangalore assault
July 31st, 2012 - 12:45 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) The Congress Monday slammed the BJP government in Karanataka over assault on students by a Hindu group activists, saying that such incidents had taken place in the state as the perpetrators feel that there is conducive environment for obscurantism to flourish.
Party spokepeman Manish Tewari said intolerance and violence has been on the rise since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government came to office in Karnataka in 2008.
Condemning the attack, he said there had been several similar incidents in the past which reflect a “very medieval and the reactionary mindset” of those who are in power in Karnataka.
“While the government in Bangalore might shed crocodile tears and make sanctimonious promises about bringing the guilty to book, the incontrovertible fact remains that all these incidents have taken place primarily because the perpetrators feel that there is a conducive environment which allows this obscurantism to flourish,” Tewari said.
He hoped that the people of Karnataka will stand up “against such elements and their patrons and give them a befitting reply in the times to come”.
Karnataka Police Monday arrested four more people in connection with the alleged assault by Hindu Jagran Vedika activists on college-going boys and girls partying Saturday at a home-stay in Mangalore, about 350 km from Bangalore. Eight activists were arrested Sunday.
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