National Integration Council Meeting,New Delhi Monday Sep 23,2013

The 16th National Integration Council meeting was convened and held in New Delhi on Monday Sep 23,2013

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the the 16th National Integration Council meeting in New Delhi

 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday asked parties to refrain from taking advantage out of communal strife and said states should crackdown on elements fanning such violence irrespective of their political affiliations or influence
"The state government should lose no time to control communal violence sternly. The local administration should prevent a small issue from snowballing into a huge controversy and arrest those responsible for spreading it'

Those who attended the Meeting

Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav with TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav at the National Integration Council meeting in New Delhi

BJP  leader L K Advani greets Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as they arrive to attend the 16th National Integration Council meeting in New Delhi

Telugu Desam Party(TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu walked out of the National Integration Council meeting on Monday, in protest against the UPA government not allowing him to raise the unrest in Andhra Pradesh over Telangana caused by the Congress’s “mishandling.”