Recently a few radical right wing outfit members threatened Archives and Archaeology department employees to stop the upcoming Novenas and feast of St Joseph Vaz at the Frontispiece of Sancoale church, in fact the Bajrang Dal hoodlums were even demanding demolition of the church.
Welcome Goa to the New India. Such has been the terror unleashed by these miscreants that the Catholic Association of Goa has appealed to the police, EC, Collector and the Chief Secretary for increased security and action against such individuals for trying to sow disharmony among religious communities.
Goa being in the din of assembly elections, there is a strong possibility of vested interests fanning the flames of communal poison for narrow political gains and polarisation.
Some agenda driven individuals misled and instigated by the ruling party had lost a dispute with the church last year and they are hell-bent on avenging their presumed insult by way of creating interfaith strife and disrupting the peace in our beautiful State.
Everyone whose heart beats for Goa should unite to crush such malevolent forces from achieving their ulterior motives, the venom of communalism should not be allowed to be injected in our veins.
The courts and law enforcement authorities must deal with an iron hand these reprehensible attempts to tear asunder the State's secular fabric without fear or favour.
Goa should not go the rest of India way where such nefarious pursuits have been institutionalised and hate for the fellow man normalised.
