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Thiruvananthapuram
By Our Special Correspondent
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 28. The Leader of the Opposition, V.S. Achuthanandan, has urged the Government to take urgent measures to prevent the violence at Poovar deteriorating into a communal conflagration. Mr. Achuthanandan told a news conference, after a visit to the violence-hit area in Poovar, that there was heavy devastation on account of the sectarian violence in the area. Around 580 houses had been fully destroyed and about 35 men and women were injured. Sectarian violence had been recurring in the area since 1968 as a result of attempts by one section to drive away persons belonging to another community and seize their land. Violence had erupted in 1968, 1970, 1972, 1980, 2004 and on Sunday indicating that the area was vulnerable to major outbreak of violence in future as well, he pointed out. Mr. Achuthanandan quoted the local people as saying that a priest led the attack and that the police had behaved in a partisan manner. Unless the Government took stern action against the persons who had indulged in violence, the victims would not be safe to live there. One of their main demands was that a permanent wall should be constructed dividing the areas were the two communities lived, he said. Mr. Achuthanandan also requested the Government to give liberal assistance to the victims of violence so that they could resume their normal life. His information was that the former Chief Minister, A.K. Antony, and former ministers, M.M. Hassan and G. Karthikeyan, had also visited the area. The Chief Minister had also visited the area. The situation in the locality continued to be tense and called for heightened vigil, the Opposition leader said.
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