Encroachers feeling the heat

jun 5th, 2007

so they grab public land, build schools on them where they get to take bribes to employ teachers whose salaries are paid by the government, and they charge the people big bucks to teach their children to despise their traditional culture and become fans of christism.

nice. triple-whammy, or what? great job if you can get it. clever, indeed.

got to hand it to these blighters. they make money coming and going.

of course, they started off this way too. the missionary brit resident munro forced the maharani of travancore to give rs. 10,000 to build a church in kottayam in 1819. that rs. 10,000 has created 10 million christists. and that money (at 8% inflation) is worth rs. 17920 million today, so the hindus have paid rs. 1792 to create every christist man, woman and child in kerala today! talk of self-sustaining exploitation: take hindu money and hindu land to create christists! amazing, if you think about it!


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From: Rama

Church leaders begin to feel eviction heat

Pioneer News Service | Thiruvananthapuram (June 4) With the Special Task Force, which was constituted by Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan for retrieving Government lands grabbed by encroachers, not sparing even the ruling front coalition partners, a section of the Christian church is feeling the heat.

Special Task Force chief K Suresh Kumar met the Chief Minister to have some final discussions on the methods to be adopted to raze down the Church buildings constructed in grabbed Government land, sources said.

According to sources, the action against the church has something to do with the issue of the self-financing professional colleges.

Highly placed sources in the Government told The Pioneer that a powerful bishop based in Idukki district has been camping at Thiruvananthapuram for the past couple of days to prevent Government action. It is learnt that this priest had told the officers and some senior LDF leaders that there were schools constructed in the Revenue land and as schools were reopening on Monday it would create problems for the children.

Sources in the Government told The Pioneer that neither the Chief Minister nor the senior officers attached with the Special Task Force had given an audience to the bishop. A section of the CPI (M) leadership is, however, batting for the bishop.

A senior official with the State Government while speaking to The Pioneer said, "The bishop and his entourage are using all their means for an audience with the Chief Minister, but he has in clear terms informed the church leaders that he will not be available for any meeting on this issue."

The section of the Kerala Congress, which is part of the LDF, is also trying to put in some pressure on Achuthanandan for a meeting with the bishop but, according to information available, this has not yielded any result.

The Christian congregation, which has several educational institutions and hospitals, has constructed 57 churches in Government land and there are either educational institutions or hospitals attached with these churches to give them a colour of social service. The special task force and its team of officers are in the final stages of calculating the exact area of the Revenue land grabbed by this congregation.

The special task force has also given signals to the Chief Minister on the legality of the land of an engineering college in central Travancore managed and run by a church. A senior police officer, who has worked in central Travancore area, told The Pioneer, "The land-grab by this congregation is not a new phenomenon. We have given clear reports to the Government on the same but there has been no action. This Chief Minister is serious on his promises."

It is also learnt that in the ongoing discussions between the Government and the self-financing managements regarding admission in professional courses, the land-grabbing issue has come to the fore. There are indications that certain church groups had even considered the proposal from the Government side in engineering and medical admissions provided there are no further action into land-grabbing.

This is a clear pointer that there is something to hide on the part of these land-grabbers and whether the Government will bite the bait or go ahead with the demolition drive is to be seen in the days to come.