Declare US Nagar a UT: IHRO

IHRO urged that Udham Singh Nagar and its contiguous areas comprising other districts of the Terai belt like Rampur, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur Lakhimpur Kheri be made a Union Territory where minorities, including the Sikhs, could live peacefully and feel safe as they have been facing various problems during the past, especially at the hands of the Mayawati Government. The IHRO activists urged the Vajpayee Government to exclude Udham Singh Nagar from the proposed Uttaranchal Pradesh.

This, they said, would definitely promote the integrity of the BJP otherwise bracketed communal and an extreme right party by many and political groups. “The dismissal of the Bihar government will similarly boomerang and would be a betrayal of the BJP commitments made to the people during the elections,” added the activists.

They further said that the IHRO would be co-ordinating the People’s Commission’s next sitting at Ludhiana on October 23, 24 and 25 and will appreciate if the Badal government could extend the time limit of one-year for putting the cases of rights’ violations before the state human rights commission and also could take s stand in the High Court on September 25 in consonance with its election manifesto.