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In the first instance, the speech of Shri Deoras (delivered just five days before the Ram Navami festival) tended to encourage the Hindu extremists to be unyielding in their demands regarding Road No. 14. Secondly, his speech amounted to communal propaganda. Thirdly, the shakhas and the camps that were held during the divisional conference presented a militant atmosphere to the Hindu public. In the circumstances, the commission cannot but hold the RSS responsible for creating a climate for the disturbances that took place on the 11th of April, 1979|Jitendra Narayan in a report on Jamshedpur riots of 1979<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yB5NM0o3I9QC&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=After+giving+careful+and+serious+consideration+to+all+the+materials+that+are+on+record,the+Commission+is+of+the+view+that+the+RSS+with+its+extensive+organisation+in+jamshedpur#v=onepage&q=After%20giving%20careful%20and%20serious%20consideration%20to%20all%20the%20materials%20that%20are%20on%20record%2Cthe%20Commission%20is%20of%20the%20view%20that%20the%20RSS%20with%20its%20extensive%20organisation%20in%20jamshedpur&f=false |title=Communal Riots in Post-Independence India-Sangam Books 1984, 1991, 1997-Asgar ali engineer |publisher=|accessdate=26 January 2011|isbn=978-81-7370-102-3|year=1991|author1=Engineer|first1=Asgharali}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Gupta|first=N.L.|title=Communal riots in India|year= 2000|publisher=Gyan Pub. House|location=New Delhi|isbn=81-212-0644-8|page=20}}</ref>}}
[[Human Rights Watch]], a non-governmental organisation for [[human rights]] based in New York, has claimed that the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council, VHP), the Bajrang Dal, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the BJP have been party to the [[2002 Gujarat violence|Gujarat violence]] that erupted after 56 Hindus were [[Godhra train burning|burnt alive]] in a coach of Sabarmati Express train at Godhra station by a Muslim mob.<ref name=Corrêa>{{cite book|last=Corrêa|first=Sonia|title=Sexuality, Health and Human Rights|year=2008|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0415351188|page=67|edition=New|author2=Rosalind Petchesky |author3=Richard Parker }}</ref> Local VHP, BJP and BD leaders have been named in many police reports filed by eyewitnesses.<ref name="hrw1">{{cite web|url=http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2002/04/29/india-gujarat-officials-took-part-anti-muslim-violence |title=India: Gujarat Officials Took Part in Anti-Muslim Violence |publisher=Hrw.org |date=30 April 2002 |accessdate=26 January 2011}}</ref> RSS and VHP claimed that they made appeals to put an end to the violence and to have asked their supporters and volunteer staff to prevent any activity that might disrupt peace.<ref name="rediff02032002">RSS, VHP appeal for peace in Gujarat http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/mar/02train10.htm</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politicsnow.in/illusory-nationalism/|publisher=Politics Now|author=Dipankan Bandopadhyay|accessdate=4 December 2016|title=Illusory Nationalism and its woes}}</ref>
===Religious violence in Odisha===
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