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Publication: The Indian
Express
Date: July 8, 2000
The state Congress yesterday
demanded an apology from Prime Minster Atal Behari Vajpayee and Union Home
Minster L K Advani for their "conflicting statements on the attacks on
the Christian community".
Addressing a press conference
at Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee office in South Mumbai, party
spokesman B A Desai said Vajpayee's recent statement during his foreign
trip on the attacks on Christian being isolated incident and Advani's remarks
on anti-national elements being behind the incidents amounted to interference
in the fair trial and investigations in the attacks.
Advani's statement was
a clear indication of absolving the communal forces of the charges against
them, he alleged.
By making such statements,
both Vajpayee and Advani were depriving the sufferers of the minority community,
of free and fair justice, he said and demanded that the two leaders should
apologise for their statements.
He said the Maharashtra
Pradesh Congress Committee Human Right's Cell would soon approach the National
Human Right's Commission over the issue and demand that all cases of attacks
on minorities be transferred to the CBI to ensure an impartial and fair
investigation.
