The Communal Council ("Conseil communal") holds legislative power. Conditions in public housing were very basic with several families sharing communal cooking facilities. Many states also maintain systems of communal and collective ownership. Continuity of house forms and inferred communal living. Some writers credit Gandhi's fasting and protests for stopping the religious riots and communal violence. This system is the traditional expression of communal solidarity. The sessions of the Communal Council are public. Here for the first time private plots were entirely abolished and communal kitchens were introduced. The mosque was integral to society, city planning, and communal life. The state has been affected by repeated episodes of caste and communal violence. They were fitted with identical mass killing installations disguised as communal shower rooms. A practical effect was government seizure of traditional communal grazing lands. Radial streets extend outward from a defined centre of military, communal or spiritual power. Early Christians used to the use of violence for communal purposes. This accelerated Punjab into a state of communal violence.