BJP Kerala unit seeks inquiry over nuns assault by Bajrang Dal members in Jhansi

Express News Service
NEW DELHI: The BJP’s Kerala unit on Tuesday sought an inquiry into the latest incident in Jhansi by which 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 common secretary George Kurian wrote a letter to get together colleague and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath looking for an inquiry into the matter and demanding punishment for the “overzealous individuals”, together with police personnel who harassed the nuns.

“It is learnt that four nuns belonging to the Sacred Heart Congregation of Delhi Province who were on their way to Odisha from Delhi on train had to face some harrowing time due to the action of some overzealous individuals and police,” Kurian’s letter acknowledged.

Kurian, who can also be former vice-chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities described the ordeal of the nuns intimately however he didn’t title Bajrang Dal in his letter.  “Although they were bonafide religious people, as they were not indulging in any proselytizing activity, they had to alight at Jhansi for questioning by the police. May I request your good offices to kindly order an inquiry and punish those who are responsible for such harassment of nuns,” mentioned Kurian.

The postulants, who had joined the Sacred Hearts Congregation of the Delhi Province just lately, had been travelling for the primary time to their houses. The postulants had been accompanied by two nuns of their Order.Bajrang Dal employees, who had boarded the practice from Rishikesh, created a ruckus on the practice after seeing the postulants with nuns of their spiritual habits alleging that they had been being taken for spiritual conversion. Following this, the employees approached the railway police and misinformed the authorities that the nuns had been taking the postulants for forcible spiritual 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.ENDS