Bishop to hold talks with Keshubhai

SURAT, DEC. 10. Bishop, Mr. Ezhra Sargunam, chairman of the Tamil Nadu Minority Commission, would hold talks with the Gujarat Chief Minister, Mr. Keshubhai Patel, and the State Home Minister, Mr. Haren Pandya, on the controversial land issue at Chhindia in which a Christian chapel was allegedly attacked by some people on November 26.

Before his departure, Mr. Ezhra, also the head of the Evangelical Churches of India, said the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Mr. M. Karunanidhi, had sent him a faxed message, stating that the State Government authorities concerned were interested in settling the issue in the presence of the authorised Christian body which was pressing for free entry to the chapel for prayer before the Christmas festival.

Meanwhile, Mr. Ikm Khan, Congress Rajya Sabha member, who was assigned by the AICC chief, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, for a fact-finding mission on the dispute arrived here this evening on way to Chhindia.

- PTI

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