Anita JoshuaArchbishop FerraoNew Delhi: A call by the Archbishop of Goa and Daman, Filipe Neri Ferrao, this week to protect the Constitution triggered a backlash on Tuesday from pro-government commentators who sniffed international conspiracies behind his pastoral letter. Ferrao's 15-page pastoral letter came on Sunday, a fortnight after the Delhi Archbishop had spoken of a threat to democracy and secularism in India. Reacting to the letter, Shobha Karandlaje, a BJP parliamentarian from Karnataka, tweeted: "First Delhi Archbishop, now Goa archbishop says democracy in danger. Why is one section of the Indian polity reacting to it when no one has been named in the pastoral letter?" If you want, you read the (pastoral) letter online and try to understand the context why it is being said, what is said.''

Source: The Telegraph June 05, 2018 21:00 UTC