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PANAJI
Goa Pradesh Youth Congress Committee (GPYCC) on Tuesday held a protest in front of Congress House demanding an apology from BJP leader Narendra Sawaikar for his statement against Archbishop of Goa and Daman Filipe Neri Ferrao.
The protesting Congress workers challenged the minority community MLAs who have joined BJP to resign and dare to re-contest on the BJP ticket.
A few days back Goa BJP leader and former MP Narendra Sawaikar while hitting out at the Archbishop for his opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act said that church-run educational institutions should not claim the benefits of taxpayers money and minority status.
He even said that Article 30 of the Constitution, under which these institutes claim these benefits, is ‘discriminatory’. If [the] CAA is discriminatory then Article 30 of [the] constitution of India is more discriminatory. Don’t claim benefits at taxpayers’ money by claiming minority status, Sawaikar had said on Twitter.
Article 30 gives the right to minorities to establish and run educational institutions.
GPYCC President Varad Mardolkar said that Sawaikar has insulted the minority community with his statement and has stooped down to the lowest level to defend the wrong step of his government.
It can be recalled that earlier Goa Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao had urged the central government to revoke the CAA and desist from implementing the NRC and the National Population Register (NPR).
“The very fact that the CAA uses religion goes against the secular fabric of the country. It goes against the spirit and heritage of our land,” the Archbishop had stated.
