Parties trying to communalise situation by raising community

Political parties, which claim that some youths are arrested wrongly because they hail from a particular community, are only trying to "communalise" the situation, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said today.
The Information and Broadcasting Minister's comments came in the backdrop of NCP president Sharad Pawar accusing the Mumbai-based Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of "terrorising" youths of the minority community by "illegally detaining" them on mere suspicion of being associated to banned Muslim outfits.
"I am really surprised at this discussion now, about ATS wrongly arresting youth belonging to one particular community. Why are we bringing community at all?" he said.

"You can say ATS or any government agency should not arrest anybody illegally, should not put in detention anybody illegally. Why are we talking of Muslims, Hindus, Christians? By doing that we are trying to communalise the situation," Naidu said.
He said that he agreed, that there should be speedy trials, fast track courts and no illegal detention.
"Why should anyone mention about one community? This is one way of communalising public life, communalising politics. We are facing a situation where certain forces are trying to create unrest in the country. Our neighbour is aiding, abetting funding terror.
"They are trying to use religion as a cover. If we fall prey to that and look everything from communal angle, we will be doing injustice to the country," he said.

Earlier, speaking to reporters in Mumbai, Pawar said, "A 28-member delegation representing various Muslim organisations met me recently and complained that the ATS is terrorising Muslim youths in the name of ISIS and other banned organisations. This delegation strongly condemned ISIS and said the youths of their community would never support their activities," Pawar told reporters.