UP bans communal harmony workshop

Citing law and order problems, the Uttar Pradesh government has banned a two-day workshop on communal harmony.It was to be attended by Magsa...

Citing law and order problems, the Uttar Pradesh government has banned a two-day workshop on communal harmony.

It was to be attended by Magsaysay award winner Sandeep Pandey, former Rajya Sabha MP Nirmala Deshpande, senior journalist Praful Bidwai and former Lucknow University V-C Roop Rekha Verma at Faizabad.

The organiser, the National Alliance of People’s Movement, has also been denied permission to take out a padyatra from Faizabad to Rajghat in Delhi.

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The workshop was to begin on Wednesday but now the padyatra will be taken out on September 27.

Activists of the NGO were also attacked by a group owing allegiance to the Sangh Parivar in Pune on September 11.

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