Another day same story

Hitting back at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister for her stand that it was the Union government's responsibility to implement the , on Fri day said it was a "state subject".


"It is the state government's responsibility to implement the court verdict and the Centre can interfere only when either the state says it is incapable of doing so and the chief minister resigns or in case the Centre feels that the state was not capable of doing it.


"If the state government says it is not capable of implementing the order to maintain status quo as well as to control the situation we will take care of it," AICC secretary Pervez Hashmi told reporters in Lucknow.


Taking exception to the timing of her statement, Hashmi said, "instead of appealing to the people to maintain calm", she accused the Centre of not providing adequate paramilitary force personnel. "It is wrong to state that the Centre has no concern for law and order."


Echoing similar sentiments, state Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi said the Centre has limited resources and has to take care of the entire nation. She said Uttar Pradesh was provided with adequate forces.

controversy over ayodhya

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/0930/Allahabad-High-Court-issues-Ayodhya-verdict-dividing-religious-site

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZSfhGVHlOcLUCKNOW: Schools, offices and markets remained open in Uttar Pradesh today but the low turnout indicated the underlying fear and apprehension among the people as they await the verdict of the Allahabad High Court on the Ayodhya title suit case.

Though schools opened as usual in all the districts, the respective administrations opened and closed schools a little in advance.

Markets were also open but business was affected with lesser number of people flocking the streets.

In Faizabad and Ayodhya which means 'where no battle has been fought', people were waiting with bated breath the pronouncement of the verdict.

The administration is noting down the number of all vehicles entering Ayodhya town since morning and prayers are being held in all the mosques and temples.

Though the shops and markets are open, no shop was set up in the Thursday weekly market in the Chowk area.

Surprisingly, there has been an increase in the number of pilgrims visiting the makeshift temple in the disputed area since yesterday including those from other states and adjoining districts .

"In both the shifts yesterday the turnout was much better than in the earlier few days", pujari of the temple, Acharya Satyendra Das said.

Though the entire nation's eyes are on Lucknow where the verdict would be pronounced, life is going about as normal as possible but traffic was less on the roads.

The situation here was better than that on September 23 when the streets had been more or less empty and the parents had preferred keeping their wards at home or the schools on their own announcing holidays.

In the communally-sensitive Moradabad, Aligarh, Bareilly and Rampur, life was near normal.

As a preventive measure, aerial survey, including at night, of sensitive places, including the Ram Janmbhoomi complex in Ayodhya has been done, police sources said, adding the force deployment has been such that it would take minimum time for them to reach any troubled spo