10-15-2005, 08:40 PM
Can you believe it, Hindus were celebrating festival in secular India which offened ruling party of UP and Muslim leader of secular Samajvadi party, whose leader is lower caste Hindu.<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Shoot at sight orders in Uttar Pradesh town</b>
Shoot-at-sight orders were issued Saturday in Mau town of Uttar Pradesh as at least one person was killed and 22 were injured, including six critically, in a fresh outbreak of sectarian violence.
Violence broke out in the communally sensitive town near Varanasi as mobs attacked a school, set ablaze a state roadways bus and some private property a day after two people died of bullet wounds. Curfew was clamped in the town after sectarian clashes Friday during the concluding celebrations of the Hindu festival of Dussehra
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<b>The alleged involvement of a mafia don-turned-leader of the ruling Samajwadi Party in the violence is not being ruled out</b>, according to reports reaching the state headquarters.
Samajwadi Party legislator Mukhtar Ansari, who hails from Mau, blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the riots.
Top state BJP leaders Kalyan Singh, Kalraj Misra and Keshri Nath Tripathi held a joint press conference here and flayed the Mulayam Singh Yadav government for the riots.
"The situation demands handing over of the district to the army as the state administration has completely failed to contain the violence," said Kalyan Singh.
Mau district magistrate <b>Hira Mani Singh Yadav confirmed three deaths </b>and claimed "the situation was now under control".
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Shoot-at-sight orders were issued Saturday in Mau town of Uttar Pradesh as at least one person was killed and 22 were injured, including six critically, in a fresh outbreak of sectarian violence.
Violence broke out in the communally sensitive town near Varanasi as mobs attacked a school, set ablaze a state roadways bus and some private property a day after two people died of bullet wounds. Curfew was clamped in the town after sectarian clashes Friday during the concluding celebrations of the Hindu festival of Dussehra
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<b>The alleged involvement of a mafia don-turned-leader of the ruling Samajwadi Party in the violence is not being ruled out</b>, according to reports reaching the state headquarters.
Samajwadi Party legislator Mukhtar Ansari, who hails from Mau, blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the riots.
Top state BJP leaders Kalyan Singh, Kalraj Misra and Keshri Nath Tripathi held a joint press conference here and flayed the Mulayam Singh Yadav government for the riots.
"The situation demands handing over of the district to the army as the state administration has completely failed to contain the violence," said Kalyan Singh.
Mau district magistrate <b>Hira Mani Singh Yadav confirmed three deaths </b>and claimed "the situation was now under control".
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