FRIDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 2026

Govt should bar its right-wing outfits from foreign funds too

The Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the centre has reportedly denied the renewal of FCRA licence of Saint Mother Teresa's founded Missionaries of Charity group (an organisation which is today spread across 139 countries and which looks after refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor and homeless besides victims of floods, epidemics and famine) for not meeting the eligibility conditions under FCRA 2010 and Foreign Contribution Regulation Rules (FCRR) 2011.

In fact, the same government over the recent years have been mischievously sending a few individuals belonging to its own right-wing organizations to file some fabricated bogus complaints of child trafficking, forcible religious conversions against the charity group at some police stations mostly in BJP-ruled states of India and permanently trying to malign its image for good.
I think that the Central BJP government of "Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas" fame instead of selectively trying to halt the activities of the above mentioned world famous charity group by deliberately not renewing its FCRA licence & not allowing it to receive grants/donations from overseas should henceforth also not allow its own controversial right-wing militant outfits like the RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal etc to receive funds/donations from abroad as these in particular are currently seen openly misusing the same to spread communal terror and dividing Indians on religious lines in the name of pseudo-nationalism in our country.

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Find solution to begging problem

GAFAAR SHAQOOR, Margao
Published Dec 28, 2021, 12:11 AM IST
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Apropos to the news item ‘Fatorda police arrest 6 for causing annoyance” (The Goan Everyday, December 27, 2021), I have a few observations to make. Due to Covid-19 that made its presence felt in late 2019 and early 2020, lockdown became necessary to contain the rise of Coronavirus. Livelihoods suffered drastically and lives were also lost. Many daily wage earners and labourers had no work during and after lockdown. They had no money to feed their families. They could…

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