Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Sep 19: Speaking over phone from Manipal, where his son Karthik Gowda, an engineering student, is being treated after being critically injured in a road accident recently, BJP state unit president D V Sadanand Gowda admitted that the unexpected attacks in the city and elsewhere have embarrassed the government and provided the opponents of the BJP with issues to attack the government. This should never have happened, he opined.
The government would have earned the confidence of the people concerned, if it had taken immediate steps to control the situation affectively, after the incidents. The prompt action by the government would have enabled the government to assertively repulse the criticisms of its detractors, he added.
Gowda said that he does not condone the actions of either the New Life or the Bajrangdal in this case. The Bajrangdal should not have violated law. If at all it had found something wrong, it should have brought the evidence to the notice of the authorities concerned. Aggressiveness cannot solve problems, Gowda asserted.
Destructive behaviour on the part of anyone including the government cannot be justified. If at all conversion is taking place, it is of a negligible size, he opined. Attacking the Catholic churches was utterly wrong. People who are involved with illegal activities should be handed over to the police. Attacks on centres of prayer cannot be justified at any cost, BJP state president stressed.
Gowda also opined that the attack on the Adoration Monastery in Mangalore most likely, is a case of mistaken identity as the perpetrators of vandalism perhaps, were not conversant with various groups within the Catholics. Other political parties, particularly the Congress, have tried to reap political benefits out of Orissa situation. Now too, the statements made by the Congress leaders were unwarranted, he felt.