From: kansal@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Vinay K. Kansal)
Subject: Re: ISS creeping into Karnataka ?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:50:53 GMT

In article <1992Nov21.205255.5380@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> f0g1@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Prasad Gokhale) writes:
>Following is an article sent by a friend of mine in India.     
>Does anybody know more about this incident ?
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>
>
>                  ISS creeping into Karnataka  ?
>                   ---------------------------
>                       (by Hemanth Kumar)
>
>A brilliant anti-national act of hoisting a  Pakistani  flag
>on  a  mosque  on on Id-e-Milad day September 19, would have
>gone unnoticed but for four vigilant activists of the Bhara-
>tiya Janata Party in Somvarpet, district North Coorg, Karna-
>taka.
>
>After confirming that the flag was really a Pakistani  flag,
>the  BJP  activists  promptly took a photograph and reported
>the matter to the police. The public mind was  already  agi-
>tated  against  this  anit-national  act. Police action fol-
>lowed.
>
>Prominent among the seven persons arrested was Sri  Kadabak-
>kar  Aboobakkar, Secretary of the Taluk Congress (I) commit-
>tee who is the member of the District Wakf Board and also of
>the Somwarpet Mandal Panchayat.
>
>The entire Somwarpet Taluk rose to the occasion like one man
>to protest against this anti-national act. The local unit of
>the BJP, VHP, ABVP, Hindu Jagaran Vedike  along  with  Lions
>Club,  Rotary  Club, Mahila Mandali, Merchants associations,
>the Bar Association,  Student's  Union  and  people  cutting
>across   party   lines  condemned  the  incident  and  urged
>stringent action against the culprits. The taluk bar associ-
>ation resolved not to take up the case of the seven accused.
>
>The  police,  sensing  disturbance,  decided  to  shift  the
>accused  to  the  Madekari  Central  Prison.  The  anger and
>resentment against them was so intense that inmates  of  the
>Madekari  prison  also attacked them. As a result Kadabakkar
>Aboobakar had to be hospitalized.
>
>As the Coorg district Bar association  had  decided  not  to
>take  up  the place, none of the advocates came forward. The
>case was then transferred to Mysore. Even  the  Mysore  dis-
>trict  Bar  association boycotted the case.  Atlast an advo-
>cate from Bangalore, a Congress (I) MLC moved a bail  appli-
>cation.  About 2000 people gathered in front of the district
>court and staged a protest.  Sensing  trouble,  the  accused
>were  not produced. On October 3, the same advocate appeared
>before the court at Mysore under the bottles. Even then  the
>accused  were  not  produced.  The case now stands posted to
>17th October 92.
>
>Senior state Vice-President of the BJP and former  MLC,  B.B
>Shivappa  organized  a public meeting which unanimously con-
>demned the anti-national act and called upon the  people  to
>maintain  strict  vigil  to maintain strict vigil to prevent
>recurrence of such incidents.
>
>
>It is feared that the virus of Kerala's Islamic Sewak  Sangh
>(ISS) is affecting this border town.
>
>* A picture of a Pakistani Flag  flying  atop  a  mosque  in
>Somwar   Peth   town  accompanies  the  article.  
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I join the residents of Somvarpet in expressing my anger and disgust
over this anti-national and unpatriotic act by the Muslim
fundamentalists. I hope that other concerned netters, irrespective of
their religious allegiance, wiil come forward in condemning this
cowardly act.

Vinay K. Kansal
Dept of Economics
Indiana Univ. Bloomington, IN 47406
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Vinay K. Kansal	  		e-mail : kansal@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
Deptt. of Economics