Benaulim MLA Churchill Alemao has said the government headed by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar should immediately solve the spate of desecration cases or quit office.
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the goan I networkrMARGAO/ CORTALIM rrAddressing the media, the Benaulim MLA said “I condemn these incidents. Such cases had never taken place in the past. Let the CM bring police from outside to detect the cases if the local intelligence has failed to show results.”rChurchill said the miscreants should at least allow the dead to rest in peace. “The government should solve these cases by arresting the miscreants before the Assembly election. Otherwise, we will forcefully raise the issue in the coming Assembly,” he added. rCortalim MLA Alina Saldanha too expressed shock over the cemetery desecration. rIt is very obvious that this act and others in the recent past are aimed at destroying communal harmony of Goa. rShe called upon the police to do all it takes to ensure that the culprits are caught and punished and such happenings are nipped in the bud in peaceful Goa. “A more focused investigation, coupled with intense patrolling by the police is the need of the hour’,” she assered.
Expressing profound pain and sorrow at the spiraling violence in the country in recent times, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has appealed to all concerned to restore peace and communal harmony in society, adding that a nation cannot progress if it divides itself on the basis of caste, creed and religion.
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Published Jul 12, 2017, 3:41 AM IST
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the goan I networkrPANAJI rrIn a statement released on Tuesday, CBCI Secretary General and Goan Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas voiced “great distress and sadness to have received reports of the dastardly and cowardly attack on a bus carrying pilgrims to the Amarnath shrine, causing injuries and loss of precious lives.” r“This last attack is another sign of the flames of violence that seem to be unfortunately engulfing the country. The CBCI expresses its profound pain and sorrow…