NEW DELHI: The funding of communal organizations is to be scrutinized and foreign funding is to be stopped, the Minister of State for Home, M.M Jacob, informed the Rajya Sabha recently.
He said that the Center had written to all state governments asking them to gather information on “communal organizations” which are suspected of receiving money from abroad.
Replying to the clarifications sought on his statement on the communal riots in Maharashura and Kerala, Jacob blamed the tension created in Ayodhya. The riots were a fallout of the tension, he said.
Referring to the riots in Kerala, Jacob said he was “not happy” about the performance of the ISS and the ISS _ (Islamic Swayamsevak) be discouraged and the Home Ministry had taken a serious view, he said,
The Home Ministry has asked the Kerala government to keep a watch over the ISS and keep the Center informed. The Kerala government had informed the Home Ministry that although no action on the ISS was proposed at present, prosecutions were to be launched against some ISS members who were suspected to have incited communal passion.
Jacob rejected the demand of some members that the Center should advise the governments of Kerala and Maharashtra to institute judicial inquiries on the notes. Law and order was a stale subject, he explained,
Asked what steps the Home Ministry had taken to prevent the outbreak of violence feared in Ayodhya, Jacob said that the Center had issued messages on July 9 & 10, issuing a special alert to all state governments that the situation was getting tense and that problems were likely in sensitive areas.
it seems that the Maharashura and Kerala governments had not anticipated that violence would break out in Malegaon and Punnethara,” Jacob said.
Article extracted from this publication >> Aug 14, 1992
