Intolerance must be dealt with: Venkaiah

NEW DELHI, Dec 1, 2015, DHNS:

Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday admitted that there was “some amount” of intolerance in the society which has to be identified and dealt with firmly, instead of generalising it.

Participating in the debate on ‘Commitment to Constitution’, he did not refer to any particular incident, but said people making out of turn statements should be “condemned, isolated and disowned”. He tried to drive home the point that contentious issues have not come up overnight after Modi’s coming into power.

“These things have been agitating; these things have been happening in different parts of the country. Are the atrocities on dalits happening now? A dalit's family was burnt, Tara Chand’s daughter was burnt.  In which regime? I am not getting in to that. Writers were also killed in two places. Under whose regime? That is not the issue,” he said.

However, he appealed for a broad consensus on different issues. “Let us try to evolve a broad consensus.  As far as the government is concerned, it is trying to translate the thoughts, teaching and preaching of the Constitutional framers with regard to federal system,” he claimed.