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NEW DELHI: The BJP’s Kerala unit on Tuesday sought an inquiry into the latest incident in Jhansi wherein 4 nuns, together with two postulants, had been attacked by Bajrang Dal members whereas they had been travelling by practice to their houses at Rourkela in Odisha.
Condemning the incident, Kerala BJP basic secretary George Kurian wrote a letter to celebration colleague and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath searching for an inquiry into the matter and demanding punishment for the “overzealous people”, together with police personnel who harassed the nuns.
“It’s learnt that 4 nuns belonging to the Sacred Coronary heart Congregation of Delhi Province who had been on their technique to Odisha from Delhi on practice needed to face some harrowing time because of the motion of some overzealous people and police,” Kurian’s letter said.
Kurian, who can also be former vice-chairperson of the Nationwide Fee for Minorities described the ordeal of the nuns intimately however he didn’t title Bajrang Dal in his letter. “Though they had been bonafide non secular folks, as they weren’t indulging in any proselytizing exercise, they needed to alight at Jhansi for questioning by the police. Could I request your good places of work to kindly order an inquiry and punish those that are answerable for such harassment of nuns,” mentioned Kurian.
The postulants, who had joined the Sacred Hearts Congregation of the Delhi Province lately, had been travelling for the primary time to their houses. The postulants had been accompanied by two nuns of their Order.
Bajrang Dal staff, who had boarded the practice from Rishikesh, created a ruckus on the practice after seeing the postulants with nuns of their non secular habits alleging that they had been being taken for non secular conversion. Following this, the employees approached the railway police and misinformed the authorities that the nuns had been taking the postulants for forcible non secular conversion, following which they had been taken into custody.
The nuns had been rescued after senior police officers intervened. On Monday, the Syro-Malabar Church of Kerala had additionally condemned the incident and mentioned they suspected this to be a a premeditated assault, contemplating that round 150 Bajrang Dal activists had assembled on the railway station at quick discover.
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