NEW DELHI: The reported mass killing of backward caste Hindus in Tsundur area of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh generated lot of heat in Parliament with members cutting cross party lines demanding that a house committee be set up to go into the incident.
The issue which was raised by Ram Vilas Paswan (Janata Dal) and Umareddy Venkteshwarlu (Telegu Desam) during the zero hour saw tempers running high with members both from the opposition and the we azury benches vying with one another to v Responding to the strong views expressed by the members home minister S B Chavan said he had already spoken to the state chief minister who was in Delhi and asked him to visit the area to assess the situation. Chavan said as soon as the chief minister’s Report was available the government would make a statement in the house to apprise members of all the facts about the incident
The opposition members were not satisfied with the minister’s remarks and demanded that a house committee be setup at once as suggested by former home minister Buta Singh.
The speaker Shivraj Patil intervened at least twice to tell the members that a committee could not be constituted in the house in the fashion they demanded.
Earlier Telugu Desam member Tenali alleged that the members of the upper caste community who he claimed were responsible for the mass killing belonged to the Congress (I) party which was strongly objected to by Buta Singh. Tenali said more than 20 persons were brutally killed and their bodies were thrown into a nearby canal.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 23, 1991
