Hoshiarpur: The Dal Khalsa on Monday lambasted the Indian state for adopting double standards while dealing with its provinces on law and order issue.

In a hard hitting statement, the party president H S Dhami said there was no dearth of instances that proves beyond doubt that the Indian state is biased.

To drive his point home, he said the Union government led by Indira Gandhi invoked President's rule in Punjab in the wake of killings of 6 Hindu bus passengers on this day 25 years ago (6 Oct 1983). On the other hand, he said more than 50 Christians have been killed and scores injured in the violence unleashed by Hindutva terrorists against Christian community, the UPA government has failed to apply the same yardstick against the Orissa and Karnataka governments.

He alleged that in the eyes of the state, the Hindu blood was costlier than Christians, Sikhs and Muslims.

Accusing the state for applying different sets of laws while dealing with minorities, he said the Centre should immediately take legal action against Sangh Parivar outfits for engineering violence against Christians and desecration of their religious places.

He said while 34 organizations representing different minority communities are currently banned under UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES (PREVENTION) ACT, 1967 on the pretext that their actions are threat to communal harmony, whereas despite the public outcry and a recommendation of the National Commission for Minorities to ban Bajrang Dal for engineering violent attacks against Christians, the UPA government has maintained conspicuous silence on it.

Expressing concern that reports of violent attacks on Christians continued to pour in from Orissa, he asked apart from dispatching "warning" letters and lip service, why is the Home Ministry a silent spectator to the sad developments?

"The recent findings of the Nanavati Commission that the Gujarat pogrom was not 'state sponsored' is another example to establish that this Hindu-India was a biased state".