Mangalore, Dec 8: In view of escalating unrest following violent communal clashes in Ulaibettu and surrounding areas since Friday, Dakshina Kannada district-in-charge minister B Ramanath Rai appealed for peace among people from different communities in the society. Citizens should maintain peace in the society and should not heed false rumours, he said.
Speaking to mediapersons at a press conference here on Monday, he said that people should restrain from taking matters into their own hands. Rumour-mongers are national enemies; people who take to spreading rumours will be punished, he stressed, appealing to people not to intensify small incidents.
˜Implementation of Kasturirangan report will not affect people'
In response to the statement of union minister D V Sadananda Gowda regarding the delay in state government finalising the Kasturirangan committee report on conservation of Western Ghats to the Centre, the minister said that barring Kerala government, none of the states in the western region such as Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa and Tamil Nadu had submitted their respective committee reports to the Centre.
Giving rise to misconceptions among people while being a law minister is not right. The Karnataka state government has commenced the process of eliciting public opinion on the Kasturirangan report by conducting meetings in all districts through a state-level Cabinet sub-committee, he said, assuring that the state government would submit a people-friendly report to the Centre.
The finalised report which will be submitted will not affect or cause trouble to the livelihood of the people, he said, adding that the Karnataka government would submit a report much lenient than the one submitted by the Kerala government.
Mayor of Mangalore City Corporation Mahabala Marla, DK district Congress committee Ibrahim Kodichal, Shashidhar Hegde and others were present.
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