Communal violence Bill: Govt yet to take call

Terming the laws to deal with communal violence inadequate,Minorities Minister K Rehman Khan Monday said though he is in favour of introducing the long-pending Communal Violence Bill in the winter session,the government is yet to take a call. The Bill is designed to stem a conflagration of the sort that happened in Muzaffarnagar and surrounding areas last month claiming 62 lives. Denying that the Bill has anything to do with the Congress eyeing an advantage in the coming elections,Khan said: I do not see why it should be opposed by any party. It is not any community specific. Any communal violence should be curbed and there should a law for that, he said. Khan had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde after the riots,pushing for tabling of the Bill in Parliament and Shinde wrote back to him,saying it is under consideration. We are in support of a law to stop communal violence. But in this Bill some provisions were made deliberately to target certain organisations and groups. Lets see in what form it comes to Parliament, party spokesperson Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said.