The Centre directed the Narendra Modi government to take all necessary steps to ensure that violence ends in the trouble-hit Vadodara.
NEW DELHI: In a firm message to the Narendra Modi Government in Gujarat, the Centre on Wednesday asked the state to take all necessary steps to ensure that violence ends in the trouble-hit Vadodara, saying the Union Government was closely watching the situation and will ensure that it is brought under control.
"I don't think that these kind of situations can remain uncontrolled. The state government has to do it and we will see that it is done," Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil told reporters here.
The Gujarat Government has been asked to take all necessary actions to control the situation and not to leave any stone unturned. "The situation can be controlled. The state government is requested to control it. We will also see to it that it is controlled. If we don't do it then we will be at fault," he said.
Patil said the Centre will offer all assistance to the state government in bringing the situation under control and paramilitary forces have already been dispatched there.
The Centre was constantly reviewing the situation and was in touch with the state administration, he added.
The Minister said he had some details about the situation but would not disclose them before cross-checking to come to the correct conclusions.
Cautioning that the situation in Vadodara should not be presented in an exaggerated manner, Patil said "we have to strike a balance. As we conducted ourselves in the last few days time when the incident happened -- very wisely and very correctly, with determination and confidence in ourselves and with the desire to ensure that the situation does not go out of hand."
"It is not something that should be a scare but it is also not something that we should take lightly," he said.
Six persons have been killed in clashes in Vadodara where violence broke out following demolition of a dargah two days back. The Centre has dispatched five companies of 500 paramilitary personnel to contain the situation in the city.
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