Congress fomenting Hindu-Sikh troubles for political gains:BJP

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New Delhi, Aug 24 (UNI) Strongly condemning the incident in which a Sikh student in Rajasthan had his hair forcibly cut, the BJP today accused the Congress of fomenting Hindu-Sikh trouble ahead of the Punjab Assembly polls.

''The Rajasthan Government had apprised the Sikh Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) President and other leaders about the shameful event that took place among the 12th standard students in Kendriya Vidyalaya on August 21 afternoon and the action taken by the authorities. The Sikh leaders were satisfied with the action taken by the state government but the Congress is bent upon projecting this event as some sort of Hindu-Sikh confrontation in Parliament,'' BJP Parliamentary Party spokesman Vijay Kumar Malhotra told mediapersons at a press conference in the precincts of Parliament.

Noting that the dharna and road block at Govind Marg Gurdwara had been lifted last evening, he claimed that the main accused, now under arrest for ragging, had family connections with the Congress leaders. ''Efforts are on to apprehend other students involved. Two police officers -- Inspectors Ramdev Singh and Sub-Inspector Raj Kumar of Gandhi Nagar police station -- had been shifted out of the police station and had been placed under suspension,'' Prof Malhotra said.

The BJP leader said it was ironic that the Congress and its leaders, who have been charged with responsibility for killing of thousands of Sikhs in Delhi andother places in the country and countless instances of religious insults to the community, was now seeking to project the incident at a school run by Central Government as some sort of confrontation between the two communities.

''Their attempt to speak of morality holds no water and we strongly condemn their conspiracy to booster their own morale in Punjab elections,'' Prof Malhotra alleged.

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