Amid protests in Bhangar in the State over land acquisition and over Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu, President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday raised concern about “growing conflict and difference of opinion” in the society and said there was a stronger need to enhance mutual respect.
“These days whenever you see newspaper and watch TV, there are news of regular violence. I am not talking about international violence, but it is also about violence in our minds, our conscious and conflict in our souls,” Mukherjee said after inaugurating the 28th Dantan Gramin Mela here.
“I am talking about day to day small incidents, not about international violence. There were conflicts and difference of opinion earlier also. But now this kind of situation is increasing day by day,” he said without directly referring to the ongoing protests in Bhangar in West Bengal and over Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu. The President said that earlier, such conflicts used to be prevented at a local level but now “it is spreading like anything”.