Rally against indain hindooz killing christians in Lund on

Londoners rally to stop violence on Orissa Christians
Re****ts of s****adic incidents of communal violence in Orissa continue to 
pour in, state government says Four peoples have been arrested for the 
charges of raping the Nun and the police officer suspended.

India UPA ruled Centre had asked the Naveen Patnaik Orissa state
government 
to submit a re****t on the violence and action taken to prevent it. The 
Centre and the state have since sparred over the issue with each trying to

pass the buck to the other.

There were re****ts that the Centre may impose Article 355 , which gives it

the right to safeguard a state against external aggression and internal 
turmoi in Orissa.
Fderal Home Minister, Mr. ****vraj Patil has sent a strongly-worded letter
to 
the Orissa Chief Minister, Mr. Naveen Patnaik asking him to take effective

measures and provide security for the Christian community. The letter came

hours after the Union Cabinet expressed grave concern over the situation
in 
the state with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh directing Mr. Patil to
present 
an appraisal re****t on

Home Minister, Mr. ****vraj Patil has sent a strongly-worded letter to the 
Orissa Chief Minister, Mr. Naveen Patnaik asking him to take effective 
measures and provide security for the Christian community. The letter came

hours after the Union Cabinet expressed grave concern over the situation
in 
the state with
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh directing Mr. Patil to present an appraisal 
re****t on the situation at the next cabinet meeting.Meanwhile, Mr. Patnaik

has claimed the central force was being properly utilised in the riot-hit 
district of Kandhmal.
A total of 46 companies of central forces were deployed in Kandhamal alone

as nine of the 12 police station areas in the tribal-dominated witnessed 
violence since over a month.

Ashok Masih Mattu, chairman of Indian Christian Concern, based in the UK, 
one of the groups organ­ising tomorrow's rally, said 'It's a very, very
sad 
situation, and I've never seen anything like it before. The Indian 
government has said it's doing everything in its power to stop it, but the

killing is still going on.'London rally calling for an end to the current 
wave of anti-Christian vio­lence in the Indian state of Orissa will take 
place in London today.

Todays march will be attended by the MPs John McDonald (Hayes and 
Harlington) and Virendra Shar­ma (Ealing and Southall) and
repres­ent­atives 
of British Hindu groups.The demonstration will start at Richmond Terrace,
by 
Victoria Em­bankment, at 2 p.m., and will deliver petitions to 10 Downing 
Street, and the Indian High Commission in Aldwych.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement that what was happening in
Orissa 
was a 'national shame' Amnesty International has urged the Indian
Government 
to 'match its words with action' and ensure that violence against
Christians 
in Orissa stops.

BJD-BJP government in the state and sought to put the blame on the Centre.
"It is not the state government which fell short in deployment. It was the

Central government which took 15 days to send para military forces," BJP 
spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said in New Delhi on Friday.