QUESTION: What do you think of Modi’s stoic silence and his cold attitude towards the happenings in Manipur?

ANSWER: I believe what is happening in Manipur is part of an RSS agenda and the Prime minister is part of it. It is a repetition of the Gujarat model. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat when a similar attempt at minority cleansing happened there at a much larger scale. But that had evoked a greater hue and cry and so he rea-cted faster. But here he has chosen to be silent. It is a very clear case of ethnic cleansing. The many state-ments made on it by opposition leaders have-n’t got a response from the government. Even the European Council has spoken against it. He appears to be over-confident that nothing will matter and the RSS agenda will be fulfilled. There was no reason for him not to speak for so long. It is a Nazi type of attitude. That is a very clear and unshakable attitude, which relies on the belief that, no matter what, people will support him in the end.

Abp Leo Cornelio
Archbishop emeritus, Bhopal