BJP Kerala chief dismisses church property article row

Dismissing the controversy over an article on the property of Christian churches published recently in the RSS mouthpiece 'Organiser', Kerala BJP President Rajiv Chandrasekhar told media persons here that the paper has already withdrawn the article after finding it wrong.

- STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, 6 APRIL

He said possessing land in the country is not wrong; what is wrong is grabbing it. "Owning land is not a crime, just as vast amounts of land is owned by Railways, Army, plantation owners, etc. However, grabbing land from people as Waqf tried to do is wrong," he said.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar said Congress and the Left parties are making the Organiser article controversial to divert attention from the Waqf issue. He asserted that justice will be ensured for the priests who were attacked in Jabalpur.

Earlier, Rajeev Chandrasekhar took to social media platform X to acknowledge that the article published in the RSS mouthpiece claiming the Catholic Church to be the largest non-governmental land owner in India was inaccurate.