(Navhind Times
January 30, 2008)
Dissociate from Hindu Janjagruti Sabha, CPI-M tells MGP
NT Staff Reporter
Panaji, Jan 29 The Goa state committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has called upon the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak party (MGP) to completely disassociate itself from the RSS-VHP-Bajrang Dal supported Hindu Janajagruti Sabha to be held at Goa Engineering College, Farmagudi, on February 1, 2008.
An official press release by the CPI(M) secretary Mr Thalmann Pereira said that as the proposed meeting is to be addressed and attended by prominent leaders of BJP, RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal, it is surprising that both the MGP MLAs as also some other prominent MGP leaders are scheduled to attend the proposed meeting.
The stated objectives of the proposed meeting are to counter the Muslim and Christian religions, which are portrayed as aggressors against the Hindu religion. It is amazing as to how the MGP MLAs can meet with top Congress and NCP leaders in New Delhi, even while sharing the same platform with BJP-RSS-VHP-Bajrang Dal stalwarts for such rabid propaganda in Goa.
The CPI(M) has also questioned the wisdom of the Congress-NCP alliance government in Goa in allowing the public property of the people to be used for communal purposes.
Further, while the Congress-NCP government of Maharashtra has brought forth a law to suppress superstitious practices, the proposed Hindu Janajagruti meeting at Farmagudi has declared its objective to oppose the law. The CPI(M) wonders as to whether the local Congress-NCP leaders are aware that they are abetting the crime of supporting superstitious practices which are banned by their counterparts in Maharashtra. It is also surprising that the premises of the premier scientific establishment like Goa Engineering College are being utilised for propagating obscurantism.
The CPI(M) has called upon all the progressive sections of Goan society to ponder over these questions and raise their voice in protest, the press release said.
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