Panaji, March 18: A social wing of the influential church in Goa Tuesday lashed out at BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi for promoting temperament destined politics.
While difficult his “good governance” claim, the Council of Social Justice and Peace (CSJP) also hinted that communal and corporate forces had “infiltrated” India’s secular fabric.
In a public pledge issued to voters in Goa, the group, that subtly backed the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2012 assembly polls, also suspect Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s government of “misgovernance”.
And like past governments, the Parrikar government also had “a tendency towards corruption”, it said.
The CSJP appeal doesn’t take names however it drops enough hints to suggest who the message is really for.
“Sadly, in the past few years, the ‘Secular Spirit’ has been infiltrated by company communal forces visible even in Goa,” it said.
“It is convincingly apparent that the election campaign, supported by the media, is geared towards the promotion of 1 individual as if this is a presidential election,” it aforesaid whereas appealing for a ‘secular vote’.
The pledge issued by CSJP executive secretary Fr. Savio Fernandes conjointly makes a none too veiled reference concerning however senior military and intelligence officers have joined political parties within the recent past.
“The lay democratic system is subtly corrupted once senior intelligence and defence personnel, on retirement, join choose political Parties professing them to be the only nationalist parties,” the appeal aforesaid.
It suspect Parrikar of failing to curb corruption despite making lofty claims.
It also aforesaid that the BJP’s claim of good governance, especially in states like Gujarat and Goa, were in fact myths.
With Catholics accounting for a little but a 3rd of Goa’s population, the Church has important socio-political clout in the state.
