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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Patnaik Govt shielding Sarawsati killers: VHP</b>
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PTI | Bhubaneswar
With BJP, BJD parting ways in Orissa, the VHP on Sunday sharpened its attack on the Naveen Patnaik Government accusing it of shielding the conspirators behind the killing of ideologue Laxmanananda Saraswati and demanded the killers be caught and hanged in public.

<b>"The culprits and conspirators responsible for the killing of Laxmanananda Saraswati are roaming freely as the Naveen Government is shielding them,"</b> VHP's International President Ashok Singhal said at a meeting.

Demanding that the Chief Minister should fulfil his promise of getting the conspirators behind Saraswsati's murder, he said, "Killers of the swami should be arrested forthwith and hanged in public."

Singhal alleged that religious conversion was being carried out in the State with the help of huge foreign funds being pumped in.

Accusing Patnaik of failing to take concrete steps to check illegal conversion, the VHP leader alleged that Hindu religion and culture are being ruined because of the Centre and the Orissa Government.

Demanding stringent laws against conversion, he said cow slaughter should be banned in the State.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->