An open letter to Fr. Mascarenhas
Principal, St Xavier’s College, Mumbai
Nobody would have any issue with you if you campaigned for Sonia Gandhi in your personal capacity. But you abused your official position to do so. You sent a mail to your students from your official email id to attack Narendra Modi and praise Sonia Gandhi.
And then you try to defend your act by saying that you just wanted to create informed voters out of your students by expressing your views to them on the issues that are important for the electorate in these elections? But in your mail, you didn’t discuss the ever-rising inflation that has broken the backbone of the common man. Why? You didn’t discuss the beheading of Indian soldiers and subsequent treating of the Pakistani foreign minister with Biryani. Why? You didn’t discuss the Naxal terror that has brualised Indians in ten years of UPA rule. Why? You didn’t discuss thousands of farmers committing suicide in the last ten years. Why? You didn’t discuss the rising unemployment. Why? You didn’t discuss the pathetic handling of the Uttarakhand disaster by the UPA govt. Why? You didn’t discuss so many other things. Why?
I will tell you WHY. As someone who controlled the union govt, Sonia Gandhi, over the past ten years, patronised evangelisation of India. I don't want to go into the details, but she did everything she could, to realise the dream of Pope John Paul II that was to "reap a great harvest of faith in the vast and vital continent of Asia in the Third Christian Millennium."
But with Narendra Modi in power, the expansionist agenda of the Catholic Church will face a huge roadblock. Narendra Modi will pursue a Development-Only agenda that aims at wiping out abysmal poverty from the face of this great nation over the next decade. And this will go against the interest of the Church that loves poverty as it gives them a fertile ground to “reap the harvest of faith” through fradulent means. When there will be no poor, where you will find your target audience? That’s your real concern, Father!
Just imagine how would you guys react if the vice chancellor of Mumbai University or IIT Bombay, sends a mail to his/her students exhorting them to vote for Narendra Modi. And if that idea makes you shiver in fear, apologize for your act that is unacceptable by any means.
I would like to end my message to you with a message by Jesus Christ – Spread love, not hatred.
May Jesus bless you and give you peace! more