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Expressing anguish over recent communal violence, President Pranab Mukherjee in West Bengal on Sunday said religion should never become an instrument for propagation of hatred and violence against believers of different faiths. Delivering the 7th Vidyasagar Memorial Lecture at the Vidyasagar University here, he termed the incidents of gang-rapes and killing of women and children in the recent communal clashes as a "sad spectacle" and asserted that "no society which ill-treats women and girl children can consider itself civilised".
Midnapore: (IANS) Expressing anguish over recent communal violence, President Pranab Mukherjee in West Bengal on Sunday said religion should never become an instrument for propagation of hatred and violence against believers of different faiths. Delivering the 7th Vidyasagar Memorial Lecture at the Vidyasagar University here, he termed the incidents of gang-rapes and killing of women and children in the recent communal clashes as a "sad spectacle" and asserted that "no society which ill-treats women and girl children can consider itself civilised".
"At a time when our country is witnessing the sad spectacle of people including women and children being killed in communal clashes, the life of Pandit Vidyasagar teaches us that religion should never become an instrument for propagation of hatred and violence against believers of different faiths," the President said. "I am sorry to say that our society is lacking now in this regard (respecting women). This situation cannot be changed unless the society asserts itself," he said.
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