The IRE of the Church
While the aforementioned line of thinking is the official version of the Church, even an independent point of view would corroborate the claim that the Christian ire against the CPM is justified. There was even an allegation that CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan had called the Bishops ‘dirty creatures’ in connection with a controversy regarding the last rites of late CPM MLA Mathai Chacko. And the media was always rife with reports of fierce attacks and counter-attacks involving CPM leaders and the Church.Even the recommendations of the Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer Commission for law reforms instituted by the state government triggered a controversy. When the Commission recommended that there should be a mechanism for the believers’ control over the Church properties, the Christian community was up in arms. Despite the government statement that they were not thinking about implementing the recommendations, the community jumped to the conclusion that the recommendations would be implemented as they are. In the last two years, numerous circulars were issued by the Church against the Leftist government.
The state also witnessed a raging controversy regarding a school textbook, which provoked the ire of the Christian community. The matter was eventually settled but not before a lot of mudslinging between the Church and the LDF.
In recent times, Kerala has seen a series of street processions led by the Church. Most of them have been against the policies of the government regarding education and the aforementioned textbook controversy. During the protests, Christian schools remained closed for a day as a token of solidarity with the cause.
The animosity between the two forces has reached a point of no return. UDF, led by the Congress, has capitalised on the situation. But the faction-ridden CPM, with the SNC Lavalin scandal erupting, could not do any fire-fighting. As a last resort, CPM leaders resorted to much whining on television channels. Sindhu Joy, the CPM parliamentary candidate from the Ernakulam constituency, visited a very important office-bearer of the Church and sought his vote. The high priest refused point blank. He alleged that even though she was a Christian, Sindhu did not know anything about the Catholic Church.
Instead of beating a diplomatic retreat, she kept asserting that she was a true Catholic and deserved the full support of the Church. The priest still refused to help her out. Strangely, the entire episode took place in front of TV cameras. Sindhu is a national vice president of the Students Federation of India and her behaviour only served to dent the CPM’s chances. The 31-year-old Left candidate had to bite the dust at the hands of the sexagenerian Prof. K.V. Thomas.
The fact that Thomas managed a victory margin of 10,000-odd votes in the Christian-dominated constituency proves that the wrath of the Church played an important role in Ernakulam. The scenario was pretty much the same in numerous other constituencies.
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