Written by Global Council of Indian Christians
False allegation of conversion on the owner of Jillus Caterers, attack on Ebenezer prayer hall in Haleyangady, attack on orphanage run by Lancelot Pinto, and recent attack on Stella Maris school children near PVS Circle all have been pre-planned and falsely targeted by miscreants to damage communal harmony
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Mangalore corporator and leader of opposition in the MCC Lancelot Pinto said that Pinto is concerned about society but the police have filed a non-bailable case against him. Stella Maria was an institution that has been providing education since pre-independence era. If the allegation of conversion was true, then Christians would have been the majority population in Mangalore by now, he noted. He also alleged that the government is behind all these nuisances as it fears the people of Hindu community will not vote for it.
He also clarified that not all people belonging to majority community are fundamentalists, but only a handful. He alleged that Bajrang Dal activists get Rs 150 daily wages from the government for what they do. He questioned Bajrang Dal's audacity in taking law into its hands, and suggested that those activists need to study the Constitution.
Coming down heavily on police atrocity on the minority communities he said that a person who was carrying the Bible in his bag in Madikeri was thrashed by activists of Bajrang Dal and was supported by the police. He reiterated that there is no scope for moral policing in a democratic country.
Speaking on allegations of conversion against Christians, he said that more than 80,000 students have studied and passed out of Christian institutions. "Let even one among them come and allege that he was converted, then we will agree that Christians engage in conversion," he challenged.
About Bajrang Dal activists, he wondered whether they were capable of looking after even one destitute child. Recalling an incident when even Mother Teresa had been accused of conversion, Alva said that when the police commissioner in Kolkata visited Mother Teresa's centre, he could not even tolerate the smell emanating from the leprosy patients, but Mother Teresa was cleaning their bodies and was serving them selflessly.
Launching an attack on the child welfare development officers, he said that they do not have feelings of sympathy or compassion which is needed in their field. He said that the protestors are not begging anything, but demanding the protection of their rights.
District convener of Karnataka Dalit Sangharsha Samithi Krishnananda D said that issues of untouchability, caste system and illiteracy are intentionally provoked by upper class people. "None of the religious leaders in the Hindu community have come forward to help the Dalits. Christian education institutions have provided education for all, while Hindu upper class people did not even offer us water to drink," he said.
Calling activists of Bajrang Dal scapegoats of politicians, he warned of public litigation against Bajrang Dal and the police.
The protestors said that they do not want a government that supports gundaism. He accused the police department of failure of duty, and said that the presence of anti-social activists in the city is a testimonial to it.
He also asserted that people of the minority community belong to this country, and are not migrants, and added that they would arrange an alternate system to curb such anti-social activists if similar incidents continue.
Source: Global Council of Indian Christians
Reprinted with permission
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