Published on Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 17:45 |
The National Advisory Council’s (NAC) draft bill to tackle communal violence has created considerable controversy both in the opposition and in sections of the press. Prominent member of the NAC Harsh Mander; the chairman of the minority’s commission, Wajahad Habibullah; Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi and BJPs spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman talk to CNBC-TV18’s Karan Thapar about whether such a bill needed and if yes, does the problem lie in the way the NAC has responded to this need.Below is a verbatim transcript of this interview.
Q: Why do we need a special bill to handle communal violence and why aren’t existing laws sufficient for this purpose?  read more »