Goa Church-affiliated Council for Social Justice and Peace (CSJP) has urged the electorate to reject the terror of 'pseudo-nationalism' and to take on the corrupt, defectors and political opportunists.
The statement was issued in Panaji on Tuesday by Fr. Savio Fernandes, Executive Secretary of the social wing of Goa Chruch.
“Let us also give corrupt defectors and opportunists the due electoral response. Let us not be carried away by petty and trivial issues but think of the overall interest of the nation and of our State,” Fr. Fernandes said in his statement.
“When rightful and timely information is denied, reports and surveys tweaked to suppress inconvenient facts, critical dissent crushed by labeling it as anti-national and as urban naxalism, when hoodlums run riot on streets in the guise of nationalism – the defensive counterclaims of “no corruption” and ‘scam free governance’ become totally hollow,” the Council further said, while also raising issues related to cow vigilantism, love-jihad and “other forms of cultural extremism”.
On Goa politics, CSJP said that political defections were tearing at the very fabric of democracy while urging people not to vote for defectors.
“Another evil is the blatant engineering of defections in violation of the people’s mandate. Moreover, persons who deceive and betray people’s trust should have no scope in democracy,” the statement said.
