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Kerala
to seek federal help in probing US survey
Wednesday November 03, 2010 11:48:30 PM,
IANS
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Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala will seek central government
help to unravel the mystery behind the motive of a controversial
survey - which had questions related to Muslims - conducted by a
US organisation here last month.
"We will seek the help of the central government and its agencies
to find out why this happened here and for whom this was done and
all other details," State Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan told
reporters here Wednesday.
The survey was conducted at Karimadom Colony, home to about a 100
poor families Oct 2, by a Kochi-based organisation for the
Washington-based Princeton Survey.
Feeling suspicious about the 83-page questionnaire and its
contents, especially about 30 questions that needed to be answered
only by Muslims, the locals immediately reported the matter to
police.
The police registered a complaint against the organisation but let
off the five-member woman survey team.
The questions that needed to be answered by Muslim respondents
only were about how religious they were, whether they wore the
burqa, their opinion on US President Barack Obama administration,
about Middle East issues, Israel, Bangladesh Muslims, among
others.
Reacting to this, former state Bharatiya Janata Party president P.
Sreedharan Pillai said it was dangerous trend.
"The first question that needs to be asked is who gave them the
sanction for this survey. Is the central intelligence in the know
of what has happened. As per the rules for a survey of this
nature, a clearance has to be obtained," Pillai said.
Sreeramakrishnan, leader of the Left's youth wing, Democratic
Youth Federation of India, is also alarmed.
"The need of the hour is to find out in how many places has such a
survey been conducted and whether this is part of an all India
survey. This has to be investigated and the truth has to come
out," Sreeramakrishnan said.
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