Click to play videoNew Delhi: It is to work out a structured response to controlling communal violence in the country that the Prime Minister has called for a meeting of the National Integration Council (NIC) on Monday, October 13 in the capital.
However, his chosen agenda hasn’t gone down too well with the BJP.
Chief Ministers of Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan have sent letters to him complaining why terror is not on the agenda.
What's really the chain of events leading to the Batla House encounter and where does the trail of terror lead to are the questions being asked.
Writer, activist Arundhati Roy had demanded a judicial probe into the happenings at Batla House during the encounter.
While it is understood that the terror trail unravels across the country and passions run high on the word terror, the issue won’t figure at the all important NIC meet.
It’s an issue the BJP is trying to fit into the agenda.
“We want to know why they are shying away from discussing this issue,” asks BJP’s Ravi Shanker Prasad.
Earlier, the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi raised the pitch by writing to the prime minister saying the terror issue should have been on the agenda.
At the moment it seems like the NIC meeting is the latest battleground for the war of words between the ruling UPA and the NDA in opposition.
What will be discussed at the meeting is communal harmony and promotion of security amongst the minorities, extremism and education amongst the minorities.
Those issues are a part of what is happening in the NDA ruled states like Orissa, Karnataka and non-UPA run states like Andhra Pradesh.
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