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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Stop harassing community, state’s bishops tell PM

Stop harassing community, state’s bishops tell PM

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published Published on Mar 9, 2012   modified Modified on Mar 9, 2012
-The Times of India

The Tamil Nadu Bishop Council on Thursday flayed the Centre for targeting the Christian community for the protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project and requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to stop the "harassment". The bishops are pained by the witch hunt, said Archbishop A M Chinnappa. 

Speaking to reporters here, the council authorities, including Chinnappa and Tuticorin Archbishop Yvon Ambroise, said no one could stop them from giving moral support to the villagers in their protest against the power project. "Pro-nature is our stand internationally. We request the Prime Minister to stop harassing the Christian community and withdraw the negative injunctions issued against the Tuticorin diocese and grant appropriate relief," they said. 

The council also requested TN chief minister J Jayalalithaa to intervene and bring solace to the Christian community as a mother would for her children. 

The ministry of home affairs had ordered freezing of bank accounts of the Tuticorin Diocesan Association on February 9 for violation of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, after a team raided its premises between January 11 and 13. 

"We condemn the Centre for its efforts to brand us anti-national. We strongly condemn these accusations and deny the allegations," said Bishop Chinnappa. 

Archbishop Yvon Ambroise said, "Union government officials asked me to answer 32 questions. After they received our reply, they came to our place in January and searched for documents. But they did not get any evidence on misuse of funds. But the home ministry ordered freezing of our Bank of Baroda account in February. Just because I sympathize with my people, you cannot say I am inciting them." 

The council also alleged that the expert panels constituted by the Centre and the state had avoided meeting villagers in the Kudankulam region. 

The anti-nuclear protests were not aimed at the Kudankulam project alone; it was an international issue. "Progress at the cost of human life is not advisable," he said. "Both the Centre and state are giving a wrong impression that we can stop the agitation. But the villagers will go ahead with their protests even without us," said Ambroise. 

In their statement, the bishops said, "Is it not a clear political vendetta and pressure tactic, a victimization that we never dreamt of from UPA government? We feel the UPA government is out to persecute a community that has a proven record of service and we are sorry to say that it threatens our very existence as a minority community." 

Delhi archbishop Vincent M Concessao has also written to the PM in support of the TN bishops.


The Times of India, 9 March, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Stop-harassing-community-states-bishops-tell-PM/articleshow/12190740.cms


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