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State to seek CBI probe into Marad ‘plot’

Kodiyeri Balakrishnan says Congress owes an explanation on Centre’s stance.

KANNUR: Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has said that the State government will once more urge the Union government to order an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the alleged conspiracy behind the Marad carnage.

The Minister said at a function here on Sunday that the previous United Democratic Front government had demanded a CBI investigation, along with the State police investigation, in the light of the Joseph Thomas Commission’s recommendations for an investigation by the Central agency to unravel the conspiracy.

The United Progressive Alliance government was not willing to order the investigation, he said adding that the Congress leadership in the State owed an explanation why the party-led government at the Centre was not responding positively to the State government’s request in the regard.

Mr. Balakrishnan said the rise of minority communalism to counter majority communalism was a new phenomenon, which was no less dangerous.

No one would benefit if both majority and minority brands of communalism started fighting each other, he said calling on moderates in both majority and minority communities to denounce terrorism being practised by a small section from their respective faiths. Stating that the UPA government was a total failure in checking communal passions being fanned in the country, the Minister said that the Union government had failed to stop infiltration of Sangh Parivar elements into the Army which started during the previous National Democratic Alliance government.

He accused the Congress of pursuing a soft Hindutva line. The Minister released a book at the function organised by the Patyam Gopalan Memorial Research Centre.

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