The so called raids on the Parish Priests is alarming, first attempt, a new dimension in fair elections.If the CEO has followed the book, then why is he willing to apologize for being being perfectly within the law. Who in their right senses will accept conditional apology? Is it enough to redeem the honour, integrity of P.P.`s.? There is something sinister both at Vasco and at Velim targeting Parish Priests. Who is behind this political blackmail and sordid drama? Never in the history of electoral politics in Goa have we ever heard of priests being agents for distributing cash,, leave alone P.P`.s Personal allegiance of some is perfectly legitimate political activity in their capacity as citizens The Church publicly preaches to exercise caution and not to be lured by money The Church authorities never in the past have publicly canvassed or advised faithful to align one way or the other It always educates their followers to vote according to their conscience and those, who support our faith and are secular in their outlook The support of representative to the church activities does not imply master servant relations to be exploited and does not assure of faithfuls undertaking. Besides, to day the religious have no strong hold on the choice of their politically mature parishioners, except that they may listen to their views, politely respecting without any commitment . It appears to be the handiwork of` communal forces to discredit the religious authorities, as they cannot make any dent in Salcette, the bastion of majority representatives, providing numbers for the Govt, formation It was thought that the culprit was I Tax office, because a member of Raja Sabha, assuming tax authorities dashed an express letter of protest to the Central Govt The fielding of catholic spent forces , and so called out standing faithfuls in sure to be defeated. constituencies is a ploy to influence the minorities, The game plan is not lost on any one ,except the few misguided individuals Now we know that that the CEO was very piously following the book for free and fair elections and express no regrets on the alibi of quasi judicial process in motion. Are the independents from these constituencies, candidates belonging to other parties, jittery of their own prospects, filed malafide reports, purporting to underhand dealings ? Are we to understand that the majority religious community is pure and undefiled in these matters of political involvements?. Is it justified to act so swiftly, without caution, reliability of informants to launch a search mission , amounting to defamation and character assassination? It is a serious attack on all the faithfuls at large and a type of intimidation Did the CEO acting as per book, expect to find residences of priests safe. unsuspecting repositories for storing of cash and alcohol on behalf of the candidates? A simple question is that how can an amount of Rs 6000= can be attached as suspicious fund corroborating their false assumptions.? What is the legal limit for any citizen to hold hard currency ? It is surprising that when the whole community and locals have condemned this raid the interested candidates have maintained a stoic silence of least concern The nature of questioning is also suspect under circumstances The Catholics by their faith are more more tolerant and forgiving, but this incident is attack on secularism and the consequences will be befitting the offence Forgive them O Lord, for they know not what they are doing Nelson lopes chinchinim ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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