Author: Our Staff Reporter
Publication: The Hindu
Date: May 5, 2003
URL: http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2003/05/05/stories/2003050502760400.htm
The RSS State secretary, A.R. Mohanan,
who suspects a well-plotted conspiracy by Muslim terrorists behind the
Marad carnage, has sought a comprehensive probe into it.
At a news conference here on Sunday,
Mr. Mohanan wanted the State Government to seek an investigation by the
CBI. The Marad violence was not just a law-and-order issue; the nation's
security was at stake.
He suggested that the National Development
Front (NDF) `might have been involved' in the killings. He, however, refused
to comment on the BJP leader, P.P. Mukundan's allegation that a UDF partner
was involved in the Marad violence.
Mr. Mohanan claimed that Hindus
were becoming a `minority' in Kerala and warned of a conspiracy by anti-
national forces to turn the State into another Kashmir. The Marad attackers
had attempted `ethnic cleansing' of Hindus, he added.
Kunhalikutty resignation sought
The Viswa Hindu Parishad (VHP) will
convene an emergency meeting of Hindu organisations to chalk out an action
plan to counter terrorist attacks of the kind witnessed in Marad, the VHP
State organising secretary, Kummanam Rajasekharan, has said.
At a Press conference in Kozhikode
today, he alleged that the twin objectives of the massacre were to force
mass conversion of Hindus into Islam and to wipe out the Hindu population
there. He demanded the resignation of the IT Minister, P.K. Kunhalikutty,
owning responsibility for the carnage and for creating a false impression
that peace had returned to Marad after the riots there last year. Mr. Kunhalikutty
was leading the efforts to restore peace at Marad.
