Team News Riveting
Raipur, January 3
The Narayanpur administration denied permission to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation visiting the place where violence broke down between two communities over religious conversion.
In the incident, Narayanpur Superintendent of Police Sadanand Kumar sustained serious head injuries as a mob attacked a police party protecting a Church where the protesters vent their fury on Monday. The tribals had been protesting alleged “forced conversion” taking place in the primitive community. For the last one week, tension prevailed in the area as a few people from Christian community reportedly bashed tribals who were protesting conversion.
On Monday, the tribals under Sarva Adivasi Samaj’s banner had organized the Narayanpur bandh. The agitation turned violent though the administration brought it under control. The police had detained five persons including a BJP leader in connection with the incident.
The Chhattisgarh BJP constituted a six-membered committee comprising law makers to visit the spot and collect first-hand information. When the delegation, consisting Member of Parliament Santosh Pandey, former MLAs and minister Kedar Kashyap, Mahesh Gagda and others, was on the way, police barricaded the entry point and intercepted the convoy. The authorities refused to allow the delegation to visit the place.
Irked with the action, the BJP leaders sat on dharna on the main road.
Santosh Pandey said the religious conversion was going on rapidly in the tribal dominated areas of Bastar under the regime of incumbent Congress government. Kedar Kashyap added that even after a police officer alerting about the seriousness of conversion going on in Bastar, no action was taken.
