Date:14/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/14/stories/2008101459511200.htm

Andhra Pradesh

YSR for joint panels to curb clashes

NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy has said that all-religion joint advisory committees could be formed at the government level to check communal disturbances. Quick disposal of communal cases and stringent punishment for the culprits would pay rich dividends to prevent such incidents in future, he opined. Speaking at the National Integration Council meeting here on Monday, he said the joint committees could regularly have dialogues with religious leaders and help in conflict resolution in normal circumstances and contain the spread of communalism whenever there was trouble in the country. Vested interests and anti-socials were engineering communal clashes he said.