Visit church on Christmas, pay a worth: Bajrang Dal warns Assam Hindus
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A unit of the right-wing Bajrang Dal in southern Assam’s Barak Valley has threatened Hindus with dire penalties in the event that they go to any church to have fun Christmas.
Members of the unit additionally stated they didn’t care concerning the penalties of or criticism about their vigilantism.
“Hindus will pay a price for visiting churches on Christmas day,” Bajrang Dal’s Cachar district common secretary Mithu Nath stated, including that their determination was in response to tribal Christian teams locking temples and Puucho religious centres in Shillong.
“I know the headlines on December 26 will say Bajrang Dal goons vandalised such and such place or assaulted this or that person. We just don’t care,” he stated on Friday.
Cachar’s Deputy Commissioner Keerthi Jalli stated the district has taken a notice of the diktat. “A case has been filed suo motu,” she instructed The Puucho on Saturday.
The Bajrang Dal had referred to the Khasi Students’ Union allegedly locking the gates of the Vivekananda Cultural Centre in Shillong a few days in the past. The centre is a a part of the Ramakrishna Mission.
Former Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy had criticised the locking of the centre.
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