The Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of India strongly condemn the unprovoked police firing in Jaipur killing six persons ... Reports indicate that, the police and administration under the influence of the BJP government has taken a total anti-minority attitude and continuing brutality in the name of enforcing the curfew and other prohibitive orders ...

It seems that the BJP government in the state is interested in vitiating the communal atmosphere on the eve of the Lok Sabha poll ...

The dispute over encroachment of waqf land is pending since long ... The administration has deliberately ignored it. It actually patronised the illegal encroachment ...

The firing was totally unwarranted and resorted to without any warning (and) targetted Muslim protesters ...

The CPI urges upon the state government to take punitive actions against the ... Collector and police officials responsible ..                          (Source: The New Age, 21-25 December, 1997)