Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Kerala Assembly, VD Satheesan, on Sunday claimed that the Sangh (right-wing) forces are attacking the Christian community and churches.
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00:00Sangha Parivar forces are attacking the members of the Christian community and their churches
00:18across India.
00:21The recent incidents happened in Jabalpur as well as in Odisha is a recent case.
00:28The last year only around 785 churches were attacked, Christians were attacked.
00:36So many prayers in the Christmas night were disrupted.
00:43So many churches were attacked.
00:47Many of the priests were imprisoned.
00:51In Odisha itself a priest belonged to Trichur, Father Davis was brutally attacked and another
00:59priest, Dr. Joshi George and his co-vigar were also attacked by the police.
01:10In Jabalpur, the Sangha Parivar members attacked the devotees and the priests.
01:18In Odisha, the police attacked and in the organizer, the official organ of the RSS,
01:27in their web portal, they have published an article against the Christian community.
01:32They are saying that the Christian community in entire India are the number one non-government
01:40landowners.
01:41They are holding more than 7 crore hectares of land.
01:47These lands are given by the British government as lease.
01:54So it has to be recaptured.
01:57After the Wagah Bill, now the Sangha Parivar governments and Sangha Parivar forces are
02:04focusing on the Christian community.
02:07For the Indian National Congress, we have opposed the Wagah Bill on the floor of the
02:15Parliament.
02:16We will definitely oppose the actions of the Central Government to bring the Church Bill
02:23also.
02:24We will take strict secular position without making any dilution.