Federal Government may ban Bajrang Dal - Moily

The Federal Government may ban the BJP’s frontal organization Bajrang Dal for creating a fear psychosis among the minorities by attacking Christians and vandalizing their prayers halls, warned All India Congress Committee’s (AICC) media cell chairman M Veerappa Moily.

Speaking to reporters in Bangalore, Moily described the attacks on churches in Mangalore, Udupi, Chickmagalur, Udupi and Kolar districts as “pre-determined” acts of violence that had the “blessings” of the BJP Government in the State.

Though the Bajrang Dal activists had owned up to the attack, the Government had not arrested them, Moily said. The liberal approach of the BJP Government towards Bajrang Dal activists had emboldened them to attack Christians and their prayer halls with impunity, he said.

Moily, who is also a former Chief Minister of Karnataka, said the Federal Government would not hesitate to initiate stern action even against the State Government if continued to turn a blind eye to the violence unleashed by its party’s frontal organizations.

The National Minorities Commission and the National Women’s Commission have been reviewing the situation in the State. Based on the reports of these two organizations, the Federal Government will take a final decision.

“But, it is quite evident from the unending attacks on churches that law and order situation in the had collapsed. The Federal Government can take action citing the collapse of law and order”, he said.
Meanwhile, Rajya Sabha member S M Krishna paid a visit Kolar, where the St Mary’s Church was vandalized by suspected pro Hindutva activists, and urged the Federal Government to proscribe Bajrang Dal, which has unleashed a reign of terror in Karnataka ever since the BJP Government came to power.