Saturday, June 27, 2009

I am sorry: Chidambaram tells Kandhamal riot victims

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    • The Home Minister, who is on a two-day visit to Orissa, met the victims living in relief camps set up after a series of communal clashes following the killing of 85-year-old VHP leader Swami Laxmananda Saraswati in August last year.

       

      "I am sorry that certain things happened last year and you have been brought to these camps. But you must go back to your villages. I am here to tell you, don't fear," he said.

    • "Whatever happened was wrong. Build your churches and practice your dharma," he said.

       

      When some refugees spoke of fear of RSS and Bajrang Dal, the Home Minister assured then that the guilty will be "prosecuted and punished."