Hidden agenda behind communal violence Bill

Media reports that the Centre is keen to introduce the controversial communal violence bill,  gathering dust in North Block for close to two years now, after Parliament re-assembles on April 22, are disturbing. The bill empowers the Centre to declare an area in a state as communally disturbed on its own and send Central forces without the state’s request. Such a legislation if enacted would play havoc with the federal structure of the Constitution and lead to avoidable tension between the Centre and the states.

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