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Churchill speaks on Communal riots NT Reporters team Sanvordem March 9: The South Goa Congress MP, Mr Churchill Alemao expressing shock over the Sanvordem-Curchorem riots, has appealed to Goans to maintain peace and communal harmony as they have been doing all these years. He urged political leaders not to tear the communal fabric apart for their narrow political gains. Speaking to the reporters today morning, Mr Alemao blamed the police for their inaction even though the rioters openly ransacked houses and broke open shops and damaged petrol pumps. " It was the destructive idea of the BJP to instigate the people to violently attack the minority community at the twin-towns— Sanvordem- Curchorem." He alleged that it was the BJP's game plan to fan communal tension in the towns and its local MLAs should also to be blamed. Mr Alemao who visited the affected Sanvordem areas and the houses of people from the minority community, stated that it was the false rumors that few armed men had come from Bhatkal in Sanvordem to create communal tension. "If so the police had to give a report in that regard," he stressed. Mr Alemao revealed that the Goa government had initially taken things lightly and never sought help from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). He claimed that the CISF was sent to Goa at his request to the Goa Governor and top police official to control the situation. Mr Alemao questioned as to how the police allowed the former chief minister, Mr Manohar Parrikar and it's five MLAs to hold three meeting at the twin towns when the government had imposed Section 144. "The Goa police are responsible for rioting incidents," he stated. -- TUMCHER AXIRVAD ASSUM; DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England Comment: One does not have to be a Rocket Scientist, to realise that Parrikar and the five BJP MLA's were there to direct the troops and to make sure that none of them were hindered in by the Police.....smacks of what happened prior to the onset of Nazi Germany.