Author: PTI
Publication: Yahoo News
Date: October 11, 2008
URL: http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20081011/1416/tnl-assam-to-recommend-cbi-probe-into-ho.html
The Assam government will recommend a CBI
probe into reported hoisting of a 'Pakistan flag' in clash-hit Udalguri district,
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said today. However, the government spokesman denied
any reports of raising of the flag of the neighbouring country in the clash-hit
region.
"I will go for a CBI inquiry as they
have the resources to find out the real culprits, whom we can punish and also
educate the people not to be influenced by them," Gogoi told reporter
here. The state CID would also investigate so as to immediately know who were
responsible for the violence as the CBI would take sometime for the probe,
he said.
"A judicial inquiry, already on, will
unearth the conspiracy behind the clashes and hoisting of the flag. The conspiracy
caused communal hatred," he said.
On reported hoisting of Pakistani flag, Gogoi
said, "if Bangladeshis are allegedly involved, then why would they hoist
a Pakistan flag. According to the district Superintendent of Police it is
not a Pakistan flag.
But we have to know who did it." "I
find the conspirators more dangerous than the emotionally charged people who
indulged in the clashes," the CM said.
"From both groups there is a minuscule
section which indulged in the violence for land grabbing purpose, but one
of the major reasons for the clash was the hatred created by the Asom Gana
Parishad and BJP", he alleged. "BJP leader L K Advani's recent politically
motivated statement here of largescale unabated infiltration from Bangladesh
caused mistrust in the minds of the people," Gogoi alleged.
