The cell will run a 24X7 helpline for Mizoram missionaries
AIZAWL,
JULY 25 (IANS) – To diminish its anti-Christian tag, the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) has set up the country's first Christian Missionary wing in Mizoram,
where the saffron party has one MLA in the 40-member House, party leaders said
on Thursday.
Mizoram
BJP President J.V. Hluna said a five-member committee of Christian Missionary
wing was formed with Hriata Chhangte as Chairman and Julie Vanpari as
Secretary.
Hluna
said: "The Christian wing was formed as some political parties and
churches are accusing the BJP to be an anti-Christian party."
The
Christian Missionary wing was formally opened on Wednesday.
"Initially
we will start social activities for the cause of Mizos and gradually expand our
activities," the 54-year-old mining engineer-turned-politician told IANS.
Chhangte
said that occasionally Mizo people were harassed in different parts of the
country when they went for studies, professional work, medical treatment and
other purposes. This missionary wing will help address such grievances.
The
Christian Missionary wing will have a 24X7 helpline.
"As
I worked in many parts parts of the country as a central government official
including in Gujarat, Odisha, Karnataka, Assam, I feel that BJP is a most
secular party."
Chhangte,
who lost the Lok Sabha elections in Mizoram as an independent candidate, said:
"That the BJP is anti-Christian is false, spread by the Congress because
it did not want it to come to power in Mizoram".
Though
the ruling Mizo National Front is a constituent of the BJP-led North East
Democratic Alliance (NEDA), both the parties separately contested the Assembly
and the Lok Sabha polls in the Christian dominated state.
With
a population of 1,091,014 (according to the 2011 census), Mizoram is a closely
knit society with a Christian majority (87 per cent).
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