Parrikar assures action in Delhi church attacks
He said BJP has already made it clear that it does not support ‘Ghar Wapsi’, however, the party is still being blamed for it.
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Parrikar promised to meet the Union Minister for Home Affairs Rajnath Singh and request him to initiate action.
The Union Defence Minister also assured the delegation that he would talk to the Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi, who earlier held the post of director general of Police in Goa, to speed up the related investigation process.
“And then I would also be meeting the Archbishop of Delhi, Anil Couto, in this connection,” he said.
Parrikar said that the Bharatiya Janata Party is unnecessarily going into defensive mode as regards the entire episode.
“Everyone can easily see that the BJP is unnecessarily dragged into this controversy, for such a thing would have been suicidal to it in the face of Delhi election, if for argument sake, the party had any hand in it,” he said observing that there could very well be a political angle to this incident.
He said BJP has already made it clear that it does not support ‘Ghar Wapsi’, however, the party is still being blamed for it.
Parrikar also said that prior to the February 7 assembly election in New Delhi, the national capital was totally under the control of the Election Commission of India, and the New Delhi police were following the orders of the Commission.
“We have to find out the reason for the police attacks on the people, who were protesting against the canalization of the churches,” he said.
The delegation also presented a memorandum to Parrikar, which said that some incidents in the recent past have hurt and alarmed the Catholics in Goa.
“They include vandal-isation of churches in Delhi, refusal of entry visa by the central government to two Vatican dignitaries, who were supposed to deliver key-note address to the Indian Bishops at a meeting in Bengaluru, and the ‘Ghar Wapsi’ programs,” it added.
Source: Goacom
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