NT: Lokhancho Adar urges CM to subsidise pilgrimage.
H: CM urged to subsidise Catholic Pilgrimage.
Bravo to Lokhancho Adar. This is classic vote-bank politics. No such
subsidies should be given to any religious club, including the Haaj, with
tax-payer's money.
The CM is hereby urged not to give in to popular demands of vote-bank
zealots at the cost of tax-payers.
Let the Church in Goa fully or partly subsidize such pilgrimages and let the
faithful support such a drive with a cutting sacrificial edge.
Why we must respect tax-payer's money is because such funds for subsidies
come from the tax money of citizens of all faiths including citizens who
profess no faith at all. Why should members of the other communities support
such subsidies. Subsidies or public projects should be universal where
members of all communities can use what is put in place.
A Good Example: A misguided Moira Parish Priest and a few Moidekars wanted
to build the new Moira Church Cemetery wing through MPLAD. This move was
sensibly defeated and the beautiful cemetery wing has been built through
funds by in-house community members to the tune of lacs of rupees. The
argument that won the fight was that if the cemetery was built through
MPLAD, then it should remain open for the burial of any and all community
members, especially when epidemic or calamity strikes and mass burials are
required.
Goa Su-RajParty refrains from mixing religion with politics of governance.
It believes that faith must grow through the sacrifices of the faithful or
it must perish.
It is said that when people demand roads, water, steady power supply, decent
public transport, caring public health and sanitation etc..., most
importantly, steady prices of essential food items, politicians aka
governments give them churches, temples, mosques and every denominations
thereof so that people's hands remain folded together in prayer and
submission from the open, demanding and at times destructive hands.
Floriano Lobo
Gen. Secretary/Spokesperson
Goa Su-Raj Party
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
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Communalization of politics has serious consequences
for culture of governance. It is when a party fails to
provide good governance but still wants to gain or
regain power that it plays the communal card.
Communal politics is, thus, a threat both to our
spiritual heritage from the past and our well being
in the present.
Swami Agnivesh
