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The Home Minister, who is on a two-day visit to Orissa, met the victims living in relief camps set up after a series of communal clashes following the killing of 85-year-old VHP leader Swami Laxmananda Saraswati in August last year.
"I am sorry that certain things happened last year and you have been brought to these camps. But you must go back to your villages. I am here to tell you, don't fear," he said.
Condemning the incident, Chidambaram asked them to start life afresh, build the churches and practice their religion.
"Whatever happened was wrong. Build your churches and practice your dharma," he said.
When some refugees spoke of fear of RSS and Bajrang Dal, the Home Minister assured then that the guilty will be "prosecuted and punished."
"All those who have indulged in this ghastly crime will be prosecuted and punished," he said. The Home Minister visited Mandaika, Rahikola, Tinigia and Tikabali camps in the district providing shelter to about 1500 people.
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Kashmir Pandits are Hindus but Kandhamal victims are Christians hence so much of sympathy .This minority appeasing govt will sell our kashmir
HOME MINISTER P CHIDAMBARAM NEEDS ANOTHER " CHAPAL " OR BOOTRIGHT ON HIS FACE . WHY DON'T YOU VISIT VICTIM OF SIKH RIOTS AND PROMISED THEM THAT GUILTY WILL BE BROUGHT TO JUSTIC . AS " CHANDRA S G " HAS WRITTEN , WHY NOT THOUSAND UPON THOUSAND KASHMIR PUNDITS ARE SUFFERING , LIVING AWAY FROM THEIR HOMES . THEY NEED YOUR MORAL AND PRATICAL SUPPORT .YOU ARE PLAYING APPEASEMENT POLICY OF WORST KIND . WE ALL KNOW HOW LOW , CONGRESS IS WILLING TO GO TO CROWN RAUL VINCI WITH TOP JOB REPLACING SHREE MANMOHAN SOON. PATHETIC CONGRESS
CHIDAMBARAM VERY EASILY SAYS SORRY THE WORD SORRY COMES TO HIM NATURALLY WITHOUT ANY HICKUP.
Mr Home Minister,What your answers to all Oriya people about the Murderer of the Swami Laxmananda Saraswati? Are you not sorry for that?
Home Minister's visit to Khandamal riot victims shows concern, his views on rehabilitation to any kind of rioit victims has to be honored by all the communities particularly to Khandamal. God bless Mr. Chindabaram P.
For anything happening to Muslims and Chritian these so called leader are worried and feel sorry, but they do not have any sympathies for the kashmiri pandits those who are living in the poorest conditions away from their land kashmir.
I'd have been happy if any HOME MINISTER has that humility or guts to say SORRY to KASHMIRI PANDITS who are thrown out of their homeland... by means of systematic ethinic cleanising..!!I'd have been happy... If HOME MINISTER had said sorry to Kashmiri Pandits and assured them to return back to valley and practise their dharma... rather than do this drama before few hundred people in orrisa.. Who in anyway will be relief camps.. as it is easier way to get free lunch... otherwise hit by cyclones/famines...!!I really empathise with the victims.... of the riots... but I also... think there should be similar action against those who started all this by conversions and killing Swamiji.. in a ghastly manner.