Church claims credit for Congress crown
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Thiruvananthapuram:
The Left is yet to come to terms with itshumiliating defeat in Kerala. If the CPI(M) politburo wants anyanswers, the Catholic Church has it. Kerala Catholic Bishops'Conference, which openly campaigned for the Congress in the run-up tothe elections, claims it is their victory.This is an answer to those who said the faithful would not follow theadvice of priests and bishops in political affairs. The Church hasworked that hard against the LDF government," said Dr StephenAlathara, spokesmen of KCBC, the apex body of Catholic bishops inKerala.
A pastoral letter by the KCBC, read out amid Sunday Mass in Kerala'schurches a fortnight ahead of the polls, exhorted the flock to steerclear of the CPI(M) and the BJP, a negligible presence in the bipolarstate. "Constitutional crises are frequent nowadays. The violations ofminority rights in education sector should be assessed in thiscontext.
"Ever since the LDF government came to power in 2006, the Church was inthe warpath against the reforms in primary education and regulationsin professional education.Alathara also termed the victory of the Congress and its allies as a"liberation struggle through the ballot", invoking memories of thecommunal agitations which eventually resulted in the dismissal of thefirst communist government in 1959.
Interestingly, chief minister VSAchuthanandan had claimed that his government was a continuation ofthe EMS government.Ties between the CPI(M) and the Church strained irreparably when partysecretary Pinarayi Vijayan publicly abused a bishop, who claimed hehad given the last sacrament to a party legislator on his death bed.The Syro-Malabar Church even called out to the flock to walk away fromthe "materialists" .
With hardly a week to the polls, priests were using Easter Mass toequate Satan with the government, which was trying to "kill all agedpeople".The Law Reforms' Commission, appointed by the LDF government, hadrecommended the legalisation of mercy killing.The government, which appointed the commission as soon as it came topower in 2006, has been soft-pedalling its recommendations, whichinclude the formation of a trust to man the Church's riches.
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