Anti-bill forces responsible for Dabholkar's killing: Chavan
August 22, 2013 14:43
Blaming opponents of the anti-superstition bill for the killing of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has said organisations behind such acts should be be isolated and their activities stopped.
Amid spontaneous public outrage and grief over 69-year-old Dabholkar's killing in Pune on Tuesday, the state government yesterday had cleared a proposal to promulgate an ordinance to check black magic and inhuman religious rituals.
"The forces which did not want this Bill to be presented and passed into a law were the people responsible for silencing his voice," Chavan said.
"Those who targeted Dabholkar were not political organisations. This is ideological rift. People who carried out such assassinations, they are not political parties," he said. "This organisation had earlier indulged in bomb making and terrorist activities," he said.
Amid spontaneous public outrage and grief over 69-year-old Dabholkar's killing in Pune on Tuesday, the state government yesterday had cleared a proposal to promulgate an ordinance to check black magic and inhuman religious rituals.
"The forces which did not want this Bill to be presented and passed into a law were the people responsible for silencing his voice," Chavan said.
"Those who targeted Dabholkar were not political organisations. This is ideological rift. People who carried out such assassinations, they are not political parties," he said. "This organisation had earlier indulged in bomb making and terrorist activities," he said.
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