SHILLONG, Jan 10: A day after state BJP president, Ernest Mawrie, rapped the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) for attributing the restoration of FCRA licence of the Missionaries of Charity (MoC) to Mamata Banerjee, AITC state president, Charles Pyngrope,
on Monday said the matter should not be politicised while arguing that the AITC raised the issue as the MoC looks after the downtrodden and poor without drawing any religious line.
He informed that due to which, three MoC-run houses in Shillong receive more donation from non-Christians than Christians.
“Please don’t bring politics into this as they (MoC) look after everybody who is poor and downtrodden, irrespective of their culture and religion,” Pyngrope said.
He informed that the AITC also raised the issue as freezing the FCRA registration of MoC would have affected the needy across India in general and Meghalaya in particular.
Following the restoration of FCRA licence of the MoC, the AITC MLAs from Meghalaya had credited party supremo Mamata Banerjee, saying that condemnation from her led to the restoration of the licence.
The state BJP chief had then accused the AITC of trying to make its presence felt in the state politics by playing a political game on religious lines.