PM seeks report on attacks on churches in West Bengal, Haryana; LS disrupted

 New Delhi/Kolkata: Amid recurring incidents of conflicts on religion lines, Prime Minister Narendra Modi voiced concern over the recent incidents in West Bengal and Haryana.
As the issue rocked the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, Mr Modi sought immediate reports on facts and actions in the incidents.
‘PM is deeply concerned about the incidents in Hisar, Haryana and Nadia, West Bengal,’ the PMO tweeted this morning.
‘PMO has asked for immediate report on facts & action taken regarding the incidents in Haryana & West Bengal,’ it tweeted.
A 71-year-old nun was allegedly gang-raped in Nadia district of West Bengal in the early hours of Saturday, triggering protests across the state.
An under-construction church in Kaimri village near Hisar, Haryana, was vandalised on Sunday by a group and the cross was replaced with an idol of the monkey god Hanuman.
Reports said the main accused in the Hisar incident was arrested by Haryana Police.
Late last night, a crowd of protestors had blocked the convoy of WB Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, seeking CBI probe into the incident.
The situation in Ranaghat was tense as demonstrators continued to seek immediate arrest of fleeing rapists and CBI probe into the case.
Opposition parties in the Lok Sabha vociferously protested the communal incidents taking place across the country.
The government, however, dismissed their contention saying that law and order was a state issue. The Congress Members staged a walk-out after a heated exchange of words with the treasury benches.
The government maintained that both the recent incidents — the gang-rape of an elderly nun in Ranaghat in West Bengal and desecration of church in Hisar at Harayana — were condemnable but the Centre had a limited role to play in the state affairs.
‘In relation to incidents in Assam, West Bengal and Haryana, if we start blaming each other it won’t bring any solution. Law and order is a state subject. If we interfere in the investigation you will say the Centre is interfering. Let us do some soul searching and think that are we doing justice to the issue,’ Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkiah Naidu said amid noisy scenes in the lower house of Parliament.
The issue was raised by Congress member Gaurav Gogoi saying that these communal incidents were not isolated. ‘There is a growing fear among minorities over these recurring incidents and the government should try to bring peace in the country,’ he said.
Loud protests from the united opposition, Mr Gogoi asserted, “Haryana Chief Minister had said that the vandalisation of a church in Hisar was right because it lacks legal paper.”
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan had to rise frequently to pacify the agitated Members.
Ms Mahajan, earlier, rejected Opposition notices seeking suspension of Question Hour proceedings to take up the issue.
Opposition Congress and CPI-M members, demanding suspension of Question Hour, raised slogans against the government.
As soon as the House assembled this morning, Members, including Congress whip K C Venugopal and some of his party colleagues and Leftists, tried to raise the issue.
The Speaker, however, held that their notices for adjournment have been rejected but she would allow some Members to speak after Question Hour.
The Lower House also saw S S Ahluwalia (BJP)and Kalyan Banerjee and Saugata Roy(both AITC) exchanging heated words over the West Bengal gang-rape.
Md Salim of CPI said that these incidents were not religious in nature and that there was a plan behind them which the government needs to unearth.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury of Congress said that the West Bengal incident was a heinous crime against a Christian missionary. He alleged that the state was not doing anything to arrest the culprits despite having CCTV footage of the criminals allegedly involved in the gang-rape.
At this, Trinamool MPs raised a hue and cry which was followed by noisy scenes with Members from both the opposition and treasury benches levelling charges against each other.
A visibly upset Ms Mahajan tried to bring the situation under control but Congress Members were dissatisfied with the government’s reply.
Their Leader Mallikarujn Kharge pleaded with the Speaker to allow him sometime to speak on the matter, which she ruled out.
The members of the Congress trooped into the well,