The Need of the Hour is a Resisting Alignment Worldwide. Nothing Less!

The Need of the Hour is a Resisting Alignment Worldwide. Nothing Less!

The partitioned India is the best example how the forces of national Dalit movement led by a personality like Dr ambedkar was diluted, scattered and killed with transfer of power!

Palash Biswas

Contact: Palash C Biswas, C/O Mrs Arati Roy, Gosto Kanan, Sodepur, Kolkata- 700110, India. Phone: 91-033-25659551

Email: palashbiswaskl@gmail.com

Worldwide resistance against zionist Hindu Post Modern manusmriti Order is not a easy task, mind you. As you see, the strategic regroupin in Indian ocean is based on Islamophobia and intense dalit hatred.Attacks on outcastes, underclasses and minorities continues. Half of the Global population is displaced to accomodate so called capitalist Development. Space Dominance is complete. Nuclear weapons are going to be deployed in space. Man and nature is endangered as global warming hightened. the ruling class wants to make this good earth a colony shifting themeselves to Moon or mars.Their vision is quite clear. they have planned well to maintain the Hegemony.Dalit movement in Indian subcontinent is a spordiac affair dilute in reservation, quota and share in the political system. thus they kill us isolating any part of this geopolitics. they have syastematically killed us for thousands of years with population restructuring. The partitioned India is the best example how the forces of national Dalit movement led by a personality like Dr ambedkar was diluted, scattered and killed with transfer of power!
Since Mehargatrgh days this is the Brahminical strategy. Mohanjodoro has not any legacy anywhere as they wiped out. Charvak philosophy was diluted in hindutva.south and North Indian dalits and Tribals are divided for thousand years. Hence the great DMK movement has no impact in the north. Only Dr Ambedkar had the influence and inteelect to resist the Brahminical scientific rigging. Thus it is hightime to work accordingly. the need of the hour is a resisting alignment worldwide.Nothing Less! We have to align all forces fighting caste system, untouchability and aparteid as the United States of America, Japan, Israel and sensex India aligned themselves to annihilate us.

A gohana, a nandigram, a singur, a kalingnagar are not enough. Dalits are fighting all over this divioded geopolitics. they happen to be the partition victims in fact. they have to be evicted for any so called development project as the tribals in India have experienced. now the dalits and Muslims are also feeling the heat. In India, in Nepal, in Pakistan, in Bangladesh the dalits are fighting for human and civil rights. but we have no coordination, not even a national network. It is ahame!
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Neo Black Movement of Africa logoThe Neo Black Movement of Africa is a socio-cultural organisation that seek to revive, retain and modify where necessary those aspects of African culture that would provide vehicles of progress for Africa and her peoples. The Neo Black Movement holds that a people can only progress rapidly by using and modifying where necessary such knowledge and instruments that has since distant past been familiar to them.

The immutable words of Frantz Fanon while postulating the above view said "let us not pay tribute to Europe by creating institutions and societies which derived their inspirations from her. if we turn Africa into a new Europe then let us leave the destiny of our countries to Europeans, they will know how to do it better than the best gifted of us."

Apart from fighting to stop African culture from liquidation, the Neo Black Movement attempts to spread the message of the need for peace, respect and tolerance among various races of the world. For this reason the movement unequivocally condemns in every form racism and apartheid wherever it exists in the world
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The Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) is a grassroots anti-Apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960’s out of the political vacuum created by the decimation of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress leadership, by jailing and banning, after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960.[1]. The BCM represents a social movement for political consciousness.

"Black Consciousness had a great impact on South African society and the churches were no exception. Its origins were deeply rooted in Christianity. In 1966, the Anglican Church under the incumbent, Archbishop Robert Selby Taylor, convened a meeting which later on led to the foundation of the University Christian Movement (UCM). This was to become the vehicle for Black Consciousness." [2]

From its onset, the BCM aggressively launched an attack on traditional White values, especially the ‘condescending’ values of Whites of liberal opinion. They refused to engage White Liberal opinion on the pros and cons of Black Consciousness, and emphasized the rejection of White monopoly on truth as a central tenet of their movement. While this philosophy at first generated some heat amongst Black anti-Apartheid activists within South Africa, it was in short order adopted by most as a positive development. As a result, there emerged a greater cohesiveness and solidarity amongst black groups in general, which in turned propelled Black Consciousness to the forefront of the anti-Apartheid struggle within South Africa.[3] – Pages 47-48.

The BCM’s policy of perpetually challenging the dialectic of Apartheid South Africa as a means of conscientizing Black brought it into direct conflict with the full force of the Security Apparatus of the Apartheid regime. "Black man, you are on your own" became the rallying cry as mushrooming activity committees implemented what was to become a relentless campaign of challenge to what was then referred to by the BCM as ‘the System’. It eventually sparked a confrontation on June 16th, 1976 in Soweto, when at least 200 people were killed by the South African Security Forces, as students marched to protest the use of the Afrikaans language in African Schools. Unrest spread like wildfire throughout the country. The Black revolution in South Africa had begun.

However, although it successfully implemented a system of comprehensive local committees to facilitate organized resistance, the BCM itself was decimated by security action taken against its leaders and social programs. By June 19th, 1976, 123 key members had been banned and confined to remote rural districts. In 1977 all BCM related organizations were banned, many of its leaders arrested, and their social programs dismantled under provisions of the newly Implemented Internal Security Amendment Act . In September 1977, its banned National Leader, Steve Biko, was murdered while in the custody of the South African Security Police.[4][5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Consciousness_Movement
In the beginning of 1968, after selling Mao's Red Book to university students in order to buy shotguns, the Party makes the book required reading. Meanwhile, the FBI, under J. Edgar Hoover, begins a program called COINTELPRO (counterintelligence program) to break up the spreading unity of revolutionary groups that had begun solidifying through the work and examaple of the Panthers — the Peace and Freedom Party, Brown Berets, Students for a Democratic Society, the SNCC, SCLC, Poor People's March, Cesar Chavez and others in the farm labor movement, the American Indian Movement, Young Puerto Rican Brothers, the Young Lords and many others. To destroy the party, the FBI begins with a program of surgical assassinations — killing leading members of the party who they know cannot be otherwise subverted. Following these mass killings would be a series of arrests, followed by a program of psychological warfare, designed to split the party both politically and morally through the use of espionage, provocatures, and chemical warfare.
> > Watered down examples of FBI investigations, provided by the FBI: [off-site links]
> > The Winston Salem (N.C.) Black Panthers (2,895 pages)
> > Communist infiltration of the SNCC in 1964 (2,887 pages)
> > Cesar Chavez and United Farm Workers Communist Affiliations in 1965 (2,021 pages)

U.S. Police Terror and Repression
On April 6, 1968, in West Oakland, Bobby Hutton, 17 years old, is shot dead by Oakland police. In a 90 minute gun battle, an unarmed Bobby Hutton is shot ten times dead, after his house is set ablaze and he is forced to run out into a fire of bullets. Just two days earlier, Martin Luther King is assasinated, after he had begun rethinking his own doctrines of non-violence, and started to build ties with radical unions. Two months later on the day of Bobby's death, Robert Kennedy, widely recognised in the minority commmunity as one of the only politicians in the US "sympathetic" to the civil rights movement, is also assasinated.

In January, 1969, The first Panther's Free Breakfast for School Children Program is initiated at St. Augustine's Church in Oakland. By the end of the year, the Panthers set up kitchens in cities across the nation, feeding over 10,000 children every day before they went to school.
> > The Black Panther: To Feed Our Children

A few months later, J. Edgar Hoover publicly states that the Panthers are the "greatest threat to the internal security of the country".

In Chicago, the outstanding leader of the Panthers local, Fred Hampton, leads five different breakfast programs on the West Side, helps create a free medical center, and initiates a door to door program of health services which test for sickle cell anemia, and encourage blood drives for the Cook County Hospital. The Chicago party also begins reaching out to local gangs to clean up their acts, get them away from crime and bring them into the class war. The Parties efforts meet wide success, and Hampton's audiences and organised contingent grow by the day. On December 4th, at 4:00 a.m. in the morning, thanks to information from an FBI informant , Chicago police raid the Panthers' Chicago apartment, murdering Fred Hampton while he sleeps in bed. He is shot twice in the head, once in the arm and shoulder; while three other people sleeping in the same bed escape unharmed. Mark Clark, sleeping in the living room chair, is also murdered while asleep. Hampton's wife, carrying child for 8 months, is also shot, but survives. Four panthers sleeping in the apartment are wounded, while one other escapes injury . Fred Hampton was 21 years old when he was executed, Mark was 17 years old. According to the findings of the federal grand jury, Ninety bullets were fired inside the apartment. 1 came from a Panther — Mark — who slept with a shotgun in his hand. All surviving Panther members were arrested for "attempted murder of the police and aggravated assault". Not a single cop spent a moment in jail for the executions.
> > Fred Hampton: I am ... a Revolutionary

In the summer of 1969, the alliance between the Panthers and SNCC begins ripping apart. One of the main points of dispute is the inclusion of whites in the struggle for minority liberation, a dispute which is pushed into an open gun fight at the University of California in Los Angeles against the group US, led by Maulana Karenga, which leaves two Panthers dead. In September, in the government's court house, Huey Newton is convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 2 to 15 years in prison; by 1970 the conviction is appealed and overturned on procedural errors. On November 24, 1968, Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver flee the US, visit Cuba and Paris, and eventually settle in Algeria. Earlier in the year Cleaver published his famous book Soul on Ice. By the end of the year, the party has swelled from 400 members to over 5,000 members in 45 chapters and branches, with a newspaper circulation of 100,000 copies.

In 1969 Seale is indicted in Chicago for protesting during the Democratic national convention of last year. The court refuses to allow Seale to choose a lawyer. As Seale repeatedly stands up during the show trial insisting that he is being denied his constitutional right to counsel, the judge orders him bound and gagged. He is convicted on 16 counts of contempt and sentenced to four years in prison. While in jail he would be charged again for killing a cop in years past, a trial that would end in 1971 with a hung jury.

In March, 1970, Bobby Seale publishes Seize The Time while still being held in prison, the story of the Panthers and Huey Newton. On April 2, 1970, in New York, 21 Panthers are charged with plotting to assassinate police officers and blow up buildings. On May 22nd, Eight members, including Ericka Huggins, are arrested on a variety of conspiracy and murder charges in New Haven, Connecticut. Meanwhile, Chief of staff David Hilliard is on trial for threatening President Richard Nixon. The party does little to separate its legal and illegal aspects, and is thus always and everywhere under attack by the government. In 1971, the Panther's newspaper circulation reaches 250,000.
http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/

Cholera and diarrhoea, having assumed epidemic form in three tribal-dominated Orissa districts, claimed 159 lives as officials confirmed 78 more deaths today. Officials today confirmed 78 more deaths inspite of the state government's claim that its efforts had controlled the spread of the epidemic. While the situation remained unchanged in Kashipur block of Rayagada district, the authorities today confirmed more deaths in neighbouring Koraput and Kalahandi districts.

"As many as 53 persons have died due to cholera and diarrhoea in Dasmantpur block of Koraput alone", District Collector Balakrushna Sahu, who has been camping at the block headquarter to monitor the situation, told reporters. With ten more deaths confirmed in Thuamal Rampur block in Kalahandi district today, the overall death toll in the block rose to 27, official sources said. According to the epidemic cell set up at the Chief District Medical Officer's office at Koraput, eight deaths were today reported in Laxmipur, two each in Nandapur, Marthapur, Kurda and one in Pottangi blocks in the district. The disease, which first broke out 25 days back, so far claimed 68 lives in Koraput district followed by 64 in Rayagada and 27 in Kalahandi, officials said. In Rayagada district, 50 deaths occurred in Kashipur block while 14 casualties were reported from Kolnara block, but no fresh deaths were reported today.

Nepal government on Thursday inked a deal with a major Madhesi group of the Terai region that promises fulfillment of their key demands including greater political and economic rights to the community. As per the deal with Madhesi People's Right Forum (MRPF), government has agreed to fulfill their 22-point demands including regional autonomy to the plains bordering India.

"We have withdrawn the agitation and have launched the Constituent Assembly polls campaign from today itself," MPRF chairman Upendra Yadav told reporters after the successful conclusion of the talks here.

The MPRF called off their planned agitation scheduled to start from September following the agreement. The other demands of the group included representation of all marginalised groups including Madhesis and Dalits in all the state organs on proportionate basis and declaring all those killed during the Madhesi movement from January to March 2007 as martyrs, sources close to MPRF said. As per the deal, government is expected to initiate steps to return the land and property captured by Maoists in the Terai region, they said. The MRPF also demanded withdrawal of the cases filed against its activists during the agitation.

Minister for Peace and Reconstruction Ramchandra Poudyal led the government talks team while MPRF president Upendra Yadav led the Madhesi group during the talks.

Fresh violence flared up in Kathmandu valley Wednesday as groups of Buddhists and Dalits, a community once regarded as untouchables, clashed with the police as they tried to enforce a shutdown. By early morning, nearly 20 people had been arrested from three areas in the capital for trying to vandalise a taxi that dared to defy the closure and for obstructing roads.

The Samyukta Ganatantrik Dalit Mukti Morcha spearheaded the shutdown, demanding proportional representation for Dalits in the upcoming election.

The protest is also being supported by a second Dalit organisation and a group of Tamangs, a Buddhist community who are the worst victims of the flourishing Indo-Nepal flesh trade.

Schools and colleges in the valley, badly disrupted by the student unions last week, remained closed and public transport disappeared from the streets.

From early morning, groups of protesters began patrolling key areas to ensure that shops remained closed.

With 91 days left for the crucial constituent assembly election, Nepal remained turbulent Wednesday as other protests erupted outside Kathmandu valley.

The Tamang Rastriya Mukti Morcha, another group of Tamangs affiliated to the Maoist guerrillas, called a shutdown in nine districts in central Nepal to press their demand for an autonomous state for the community.

A third protest began in southern Nepal as an armed group, calling itself the Madhesi Tigers, Wednesday began a five-day closure in Saptari district.

The district in the Terai plains has been tense since Tuesday night when the Tigers exploded bombs to intimidate people into obeying their closure call.

Though the government, pressured by the international community to hold elections Nov 22 as per schedule, began hurried talks with three groups of ethnic protesters, including one from the plains, the parleys have been slow to reach an understanding with the groups frequently returning to protests.

The Karnataka Rajya Khotti Jati Patra Veerodhi Horata Vedike urged SC/ST units of all political parties to fight the proposed move of the Union Government to extend reservation benefits to converted dalits.The Vedike stated in a press release issued here on Wednesday that the Indian Constitution has adopted the reservation policy to eradicate untouchability among socially backward castes of the Hindu religion.But the government move to accord reservation benefits to SC/STs who are converted to Christianity and Islam from Hinduism is unconstitutional, except for those converting to Sikhism and Buddhism.

Leaders Y A Doddamani and Krishna Jakkappanavar criticised the BJP SC/ST national unit president Sathyanar-ayana Jathiya’s press statement in Davanagere that BJP would launch an agitation against the Union government’s proposed reservation policy. They appealed to the SC/ST wings of political parties not to be pawns in the hands of their respective parties.

The protests over murder of a dalit youth in Gohana in Haryana Thursday spread into various parts of Punjab. The members of Balmiki community held protest marches and forced traders to close markets.The reports of protest by Balmiki Samaj members have been received from Jalandhar, Amritsar, Phagwara, Nawanshehar and Patiala.Police faced tough time in controlling the mob which went berserk at many places in Punjab and Haryana.

Indian Justice Party president Udit Raj has condemned the murder of a Dalit at Gohana in Haryana saying "it is highly shameful that there is no let-up in atrocities against Dalits in Haryana."In a statement, Dr. Raj said: "The victim Rakesh, despite being acquitted by the court for the alleged murder of an upper caste man, was made the target of casteist elements. The upper castes were dissatisfied with the judgment and vented their anger by taking his life."

Private sector not doing enough; you can’t succeed in a society that fails’
If you add zero to zero, you still get zero. If you add one to one, you get two. Remember, the Congress had to start from zero, tells union minister Meira Kumar

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Social justice and empowerment minister Meira Kumar is a passionate advocate of the government’s policy of reservation in educational institutions and a proposal to follow a similar policy in companies. She is at the forefront of a group within the ruling Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) that has been pushing the private sector to reserve jobs for the scheduled castes (SC) and scheduled tribes (ST). In an interview with Mint, Kumar, an Indian Foreign Service official-turned-politician, and daughter of the country’s former deputy prime minister, and dalit leader, the late Babu Jagjivan Ram, said the private sector needs to do something more concrete towards the cause, and fast. Edited excerpts:
You recently demanded that the government increase the quota for reservation because of the increase in the percentage of people belonging to the scheduled castes in the country. Can you elaborate on this?
For a cause: Meira Kumar says reservation has a social dimension that doesn’t change with one generation getting its benefits.I would never make a demand that reservation should be increased because of an increase in population. That would amount to rewarding population growth.
My point is that over time, a number of castes, and even a religion, neo-Buddhists, have been added to list of SCs. From 607 in 1950, there are now 1,210 castes in the SC list. Of course, their population must have also grown. As a result, the percentage of SCs has grown from 15% to 16.23% (of the population). That is why I said the quota should be increased.
Where do you stand on the debate over excluding the creamy layer, or the second-generation beneficiaries of reservation, and linking reservation to economic status rather than caste?
It is very easy to give sermons sitting here in Delhi. What do such people (asking for the exclusion of the creamy layer) know about the reality in India? You can’t expect people who have suffered for so long to come up in one generation. As for the economically underprivileged, the government has several poverty alleviation programmes. There should be more such programmes.
But reservation for the SCs and STs has a social dimension that doesn’t change with one generation getting benefits of reservation. The economically disadvantaged from the other castes don’t have to suffer the stigma of untouchability. How do you explain this (the creamy layer argument) to someone in a remote village school who won’t accept a mid-day meal because the meal has been cooked by someone belonging to a particular caste? How do you explain this to an innocent five-year-old who is oppressed by a schoolteacher because of the accident of his birth?
This would mean that the current reservation policy hasn’t changed mindsets. And that successive social reformers, too, have failed. Would you agree with that?
Yes.
Let me tell you why. Besides basic needs like food, shelter and affection, you need respect. If you belong to a certain caste, you are guaranteed that respect by birth. People from certain other castes come and touch your feet, right from your birth. So, why would you like to change such a system?
Does that still happen?
What are you talking about? Where do you live? Go beyond Delhi. This is the reality in India, in the villages, in the majority of the country. Untouchability is a fact of life even now. And it is very difficult to change mindsets about that.
In that case, how can reservation help? Don’t you think it creates further resentment among those left out by this policy?
If we had a better solution, we would adopt that. I (a Dalit) am sitting here. I have come up. So there is hope. The government does its (part)... That helps to an extent. But the real change will happen...because of the change in mindsets.
Other political parties are now arguing for an economic basis for reservation. The Bahujan Samaj Party, for instance, is already reaping the political benefits of doing this.
You should do certain things without reaping the political benefits. You are talking about other parties, but let me tell you they are only building on the foundation laid by the Congress. Nobody sees the foundation, only the building is visible. If you add zero to zero, you still get zero. If you add one to one, you get two. Remember, the Congress had to start from zero.
You have also been insisting on reservation in private sector jobs, apart from educational institutions. Do you really believe the private sector is moving towards reservation of sorts?
There has been some progress. I have been meeting them (companies) amicably, and regularly, and there has been some change in their attitude. In the beginning, they were really opposed to me. But I have been telling them it is a golden opportunity for them to do something for the society. The private sector does it in the US as well.
Is the government committed to this objective?
There is total commitment, on part of the prime minister, the government and the UPA chairperson.
Do you think the government did the right thing by giving up the option of legislation for reservation in the private sector?
Who has given up the option?
The Prime Minister himself has said so.
The idea is to take at least some people along. We want them to do it voluntarily.
If you still fail in achieving your goal of jobs for SCs and STs in the private sector, whom would you blame more: the government or the private sector?
I don’t doubt the intention of the private sector, but I must say it is not doing enough. It must do something concrete, and fast. You can’t succeed in a society that fails.
Is there an apprehension that society is failing? That this government isn’t doing enough for the common man?
There is no such apprehension. I meant that for the private sector. It must reflect on this. We have achieved a good (economic) growth rate. It should percolate to the small towns, the villages.
http://www.livemint.com/2007/08/28013111/8216Private-sector-not-doin.html

In Haryana, a state-wide bandh called by Dalit organisations brought normal life to virtual halt at Gohana, Sonepat, Bhiwani, Ambala and Sirsa. By the end of the day, the clashes, especially in Rohtak and Bhiwani, saw more than 20 persons injured, including a DSP and six other cops. The Bandh was called by All India Balmiki Mahasabha to protest the murder of Dalit youth and alleged excesses on their community.Members of the Dalit community staged demonstrations throughout the day in various parts of the city to protest against the murder of a Dalit youth, Rakesh alias Lara, in Gohana on Monday. Though the protesters came out on the streets in large numbers, heavy deployment of police at trouble-prone areas, particularly around Mauli Jagran colony and Ram Darbar Phase-II, stopped the events from taking a serious turn.Haryana remains tense for a third day, following the violence that broke out on a Dalits killing on Wednesday.
The daylong protests began from the Valmiki temple in Ram Darbar where about 50 protesters held a meeting around 9 am and raised anti-Haryana government slogans. Later, a delegation submitted their memorandum of demands to the Deputy Commissioner.

While the city police were busy keeping a watch on the group, about 400-500 protesters assembled at Mauli Jagran and started marching towards Panchkula. When Chandigarh and Haryana Police personnel deployed around the colony intercepted the mob, a minor clash broke out between them. The protesters pelted the policemen and media personnel with stones and tried to damage their vehicles. The police had to resort to mild cane-charge to disperse the mob.

The protesters also damaged an MC truck, which had gone to Mauli Jagran to pick up garbage, by throwing a burnt tyre in it. Manimajra station house officer Inspector Hari Kumar entered the burning vehicle and took the tyre out. The truck driver sustained minor injuries when a stone hurled at the vehicle hit him.

Around 6.30 pm, the protesters, about 150 to 200 in number, started a march from Sector 25 colony and blocked the traffic at Sector 24-25-37-38 roundabout. They burnt Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda's effigy and raised anti-government slogans, demanding immediate action against the accused responsible for the youth's death at Gohana. The heavy police presence could be seen around Mauli Jagran and Ram Darbar till the filing of this report. Police officials said they would remain posted throughout the night to avoid any untoward incident.

On the other hand, the nationwide outrage over the police atrocity against a petty thief in Bhagalpur has forced the Bihar Government to act tough with the cops.Following an official-level enquiry into the incident, the Nitish Kumar Government late on Thursday dismissed the two policemen from service with immediate effect.The two policemen had been put under suspension on Wednesday on the charge of assaulting and dragging a chain-snatcher tied to their motorcycle two days ago.LB Singh, an assistant sub-inspector, and constable Ramchandra Rai have been dismissed by DIG (Bhagalpur range) G Sharma and Bhagalpur superintendent of police JS Gangwar, official sources in Patna said.The two policemen were accused of joining a crowd in thrashing Mohd Aurangzeb, who had snatched the chain of a woman devotee, at Manaskamnadhish temple at Nathnagar near Bhagalpur on August 27.

Describing it as "extremely serious", the Lok Sabha today condemned the Bhagalpur incident in which a thief was beaten up by a mob and then tied to a police motorcycle and dragged. Speaker Somnath Chatterjee observed that it was his hope that such an incident would not recur anywhere in the country.

"It is against human rights and on behalf of the entire House ... I wish to condemn the incident. ... It is not a question of apportioning blame here," he said as the House reassembled in the afternoon after 20-minute adjournment following uproar by RJD members on the issue.

Expressing confidence that all appropriate action would be taken by the authorities concerned in the "very unhappy" incident, Chatterjee said "we should deal with this matter rising above party considerations".

"We hope and believe that India, with such an old civilisation of which we are proud, such a similar incident will not happen anywhere in the country", he said thanking all the leaders for their response in the matter.

Earlier, RJD members, including Vijay Krishna and Ram Kripal Yadav, threatened to storm the well protesting the incident which, they claimed, reflected that there was no government in the state and the minorities were unsafe.

This was countered by members from JD(U) and BJP.

Authorities today lifted curfew from the Sadar Police Station area while day curfew was lifted from the Tajganj area in Agra, as an eerie calm prevailed in the city, a day after it witnessed wide spread violence.A BJP team, headed by general secretary Vinay Katiyar, left for Agra to make an assessment of the violence. Party president Rajnath Singh set up the team that has Kishan Singh Sangwan and Subash Maharia as members. It will submit a report to Mr. Singh.

Suspected Maoists ambushed a police party and killed 12 men in the forests of Jegurugonda near Dornapal in Chhattisgarh, about 50 km from Chintoor in Andhra Pradesh, on Wednesday.