BANGALORE: Perturbed by the attacks on Christians in coastal Karnataka, former judge of the Karnataka High Court Justice M F Saldanha and the Christian Secular Forum on Monday urged the State government to take action.
Describing the incident at Uppinangady in which RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat allegedly made a provocative speech against the minority communities recently, Saldanha said, “The communal disharmony in the coastal areas has never been so bad.”
The leaders of the forum expressed concern over a similar incident in Jammu and Kashmir and said, “ This is unhealthy for secularism and has to be avoided.” The forum appealed to the Union government to protect the missionaries, whose lives and property are in danger.