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Congress denies any link with Dara Singh

The Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee today denied that Dara Singh, alias Rabindra Pal Singh, main accused in the gruesome murder of Australian missionary Graham Stewart Stains and his two sons, ever had any link with the party.

OPCC president Hemananda Biswal said in Bhubaneswar that at no point of time did the accused Dara Singh work for the party or for any minister of the state cabinet.

On the other hand, he said, Dara Singh had worked for Bharatiya Janata Party co-ordinator Chhotelal Mahanta during the last Lok Sabha election and was the BJP's election agent at Patna in Orissa's Keonjhar district.

Observing that various organisations connected to the BJP were trying to foment communal tension, Biswal said the Congress would organise sadbhavana (harmony) rallies throughout the state on January 30, the fiftieth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, to create public awareness about the danger from communal forces.

He said that in view of a series of criminal incidents in the state, forces creating communal tension should be banned in Orissa.

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