Thursday, October 27 2005 17:04 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Varanasi: Accusing some political parties of instigating violence during the recent communal violence in Mau district of Uttar Pradesh, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today (Oct 27, 2005) said the majority community may be compelled to take law into their hands to defend themselves.

"Neither the state government nor the Centre took appropriate and punitive actions to rein in the members of the Muslim community who attacked the lives and properties of the Hindus for several days in the district", VHP international president Ashok Singhal told reporters here.

He alleged that the 'so-called secular parties' had instigated the members of the other community for narrow political gains.

Singhal accused Mulayam Singh Yadav government of playing a 'partisan role', and urged the state Governor T V Rajeswar Rao, who had visited the strife-torn district on October 22 last, to use his discretionary powers to recommend dismissal of the state government and imposition of the President's rule in the state.