Nagpur /Mangalore Aug 1 -Hitting out at the National Advisory Council (NAC), Vishwa Hindu Parishad's international general secretary, Praveen Togadia, today said the saffron organisation will launch an agitation to oppose the draft `Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence' bill. He alleged that NAC, headed by Sonia Gandhi, was anti-Hindu and it wanted to brand the community as "criminal tribe" through the bill. Such a "draconian" law did not exist even in the Mughal or the British periods, he said.  read more »

May 21, 2011, 04.18am IST http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-21/india/29568132_1_...
NEW DELHI: The Centre will be able to intervene in cases of communal or targeted violence by invoking a provision in Article 355 of the Constitution if the Communal Violence Bill cleared by the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council on Friday is adopted by Parliament.  read more »