Kochi: BJP in Kerala is in a soup over the attacks on Christians in North India with BJP leaders directly coming under the range of fire of Bishop of Thrissur which sent Suresh Gopi of BJP to Lok Sabha, media reports said.
With the Saffron party planning big gains in the local bodies and Assembly polls, the Catholic Church’s outburst has bulldozed its future dreams.
BJP’s maiden Lok Sabha win from Thrissur was mainly due to the Christian community shifting allegiance.
The attacks on Christian missionaries exposed the lack of discipline in the party where the Sangh Parivar cadre are resorting to their ways of getting things done.
The incident at Odisha has come at a time when the incident at Chattisgarh
was controlled with much difficulty.
Condemning Wednesday night Odisha incident, the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) President CBCI Mar Andrews Thazhath mocked BJP leaders who frequented the Church with cakes.
Where are the BJP leaders in Kerala who visit churches and treat the priests with cakes,” he mocked.
Thazhath, who is also the Archbishop of Thrissur, expressed fear for the lives of Christians in the wake of recurring attacks.
Urging the Centre and state governments to take strict action against the ‘fringe groups’ allegedly involved in attacks, Thrissur.
“There are anti-conversion laws in different states and each of them are wrongly interpreted by activists who carry out the attacks,” the archbishop said.
Meanwhile, there are stories making round that the attacks were engineered by the disgruntled groups in BJP in Kerala and elsewhere.
Charges are also being made against the Congress who are desperate to nudge out the BJP in Kerala Assembly elections.
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Church flays BJP
