LUCKNOW (PTI): The Indian Government is actively considering a proposal to ban Shiv Sena, Union Home Minister S.B. Chavan said here Jan.22.
Chavan said the Shiv Sena was trying to change the cosmopolitan Character of Bombay but the Central government was determined to frustrate such designs.
The Shiv Sena, a Right Wing Hindu fundamentalist party based in the West Indian state of Maharashtra, has been facing the flak for the recent communal violence in Bombay. At the end of his two day visit to the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the home minister told reporters that other organizations responsible for the ’communal divide and secessionist activities” would also be banned.
Chavan was answering a question on the large scale communal not’s in Bombay, capital of Maharashtra, and the subsequent Mass Exodus of non Maharashtrians from Bombay. Chavan said the Center had abandoned its earlier move to disband Uttar Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), which is alleged to be communal, but was considering a plan to revamp the same giving it a representative character. Chavan, who was scheduled to make an on the spot Study of the situation at Ayodhya after the Babri Mosque demolition on December 6, Postponed his visit at the last minute and left for New Delhi Friday.
Article extracted from this publication >> January 29, 1993
