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Step up vigil against ISI activities: Hindu Vahini

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD Aug. 22. The State unit of Hindu Vahini has demanded that the Government step up vigil against ISI activities in the City and neighbouring districts which were on the rise.

``The local youth are being brainwashed into joining the jehadi forces in the name of religion. A number of ISI activists were sneaking into the City to mobilise innocent youth,'' the organisation's State president, Pandu Ranga Rao Kulkarni, organising secretary K. Trivikrama Rao and vice-president Bhuchi Reddy said at a press conference here on Friday.

Referring to the series of incidents of idol desecration at Shamshabad, Falaknuma and Nalgonda, they alleged that vested interests at the behest of the ISI were moving around the City during the nights and desecrating idols at will.

While a Hanuman temple was desecrated at Shamshabad on May 21, idols at the Katta Maisamma temple near the Falaknuma bridge were desecrated on July 25. Similarly, ISI activists "resorted to the unpardonable act of wrecking'' an ancient Nandi statue at a Shiva temple in Gundrampally village of Chityal mandal in Nalgonda district. The national flag was also burnt by ISI activists on Independence Day at Narsapur in Medak district, they said.

The Hindu Vahini leaders submitted a memorandum to the Home Minister, T. Devender Goud, and urged him to take appropriate action on the matter and apprehend the perpetrators of `such heinous acts' at the earliest. They wanted a closer watch by the State Government on ISI activities in the City and neighbouring districts, particularly Nalgonda.

They said the Home Minister had assured them that he would look into the matter.

Priest pleads innocence: The priest of the Katta Maisamma temple in Falaknuma, Yadaiah, who was accused of desecrating temple idols recently, said that he was falsely implicated by the City police to ensure that the incident did not assume communal colour. The priest was also present at the press conference.

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