Bishop Varghese Chakkalakal of Calicut said that minorities have no reason to worry under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
Bishop Chakkalakal was addressing the media after meeting V Muraleedharan, BJP Rajya Sabha MP in Kozhikode.
The bishop said that top leaders of the BJP including PM Modi cannot be blamed for isolated incidents taking place in states.
“They might not even be knowing about the incidents,” he was quoted as saying by the times of India. He further told the media that the issues he had raised during his meeting with PM Modi in 2016, were given a sympathetic hearing and even addressed “to an extent”.
“The issues related to Coastal Regulation Zone norms have been addressed to an extent,” he was quoted as saying in the report. He was called by the BJP MP as a part of the outreach programme undertaken by BJP MPs on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the BJP government at the Centre.
Meanwhile, according to the report, George Mar Alencherry, Syro-Malabar church cardinal has promised church’s support to Kummanam Rajasekharan, who was appointed as the governor of Mizoram.
The two had a lunch at an Ernakulam guest house. “There are so many tribes there who have different opinions. It is a part of his responsibility as the governor to keep them together.
The opposition there need not be political always. We need not see these responses as religious or political.
That’s my view based on what I came to know about the situation there through the news. I don’t think anything that can be done against the governor by a combine of Christians,” he was later quoted as saying by Times of India.