Strategy in place to undermine role of minority groups: Church
GUWAHATI: The Assam Christian Forum has taken exception to the “haste” in which the Centre was trying to impose an “unstudied and unreflected” education policy on the people, alleging that scant respect was being shown towards the autonomy of individual states and their concern for preserving their identity and cultural heritage.
In a meeting here on Friday, the Church leaders alleged that a carefully formulated strategy was in place to homogenise the Indian society, ignoring regional diversity and inherited ways of passing on the heirloom of centuries to the next generation.
Leaders from the Catholic Church, Church of North India, Council of Baptist Churches of North East India, Presbyterian Church of India and Lutheran Church among others attended the meeting.
“We feel a plan is in place to undermine the contributions of minority groups and smaller communities in the field of education. If implemented, the education policy will ensure no one from the lower ranks will ever be able to go beyond their assigned level,” Allen Brooks, spokesperson of the Assam Christian Forum, said in a statement.
The participants in the meeting further alleged that there was a planned effort on the part of the ruling dispensation to divide the existing Christian communities.
“Dissent is being systematically sponsored and fragmentation encouraged. Those who work for the dominant party are formed into a Christian Missionary Cell with a mission to collect data on Christian activities and pass it on to their opponents who wish to undermine the unity of Christian service in the Northeast,” Brooks said.
The members of the Forum resolved to keep studying the situation and cautioning their respective communities on the threats to the community which are developing new dimensions.
