FOR SANATAN, THE 'DEMON' WAS IN A BJP-MAN'S DIWALI FUNCTION (GOATNT) Panaji: The Diwali-eve improvised explosive device (IED) blast carried out by members of Hindu right wing group Sanatan Sanstha (SS) targeted a popular festive gathering organised by a local Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) leader, a local trial court heard. Rupesh Mahatme, the president of the Goa unit of the Bharitya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), a youth wing of the BJP, told a special trial court instituted to try the 2009 Diwali-eve blast in Margao, 35 kms from here, said that 15,000 persons had gathered at a narakasur effigy competition (a mythological demon slaying event held in Goa on the lines of Ravan vadh in other parts of the country) organised by his ‘Solid Party’ Trust and was attended by chief minister Digambar Kamat, who is the local legislator and Damodar Naik, a BJP legislator. “For the last six-seven years the members of Sanatan Sanstha used to object to our holding the narakasur effigy competition and they used to complain to the Collector of South Goa,” Mahatme told the trial court. (CONTD...) for more of the story please log on to http://goatnt.com/full_story.php?id=146
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