‘Present-day India like Nazi Germany’

We are witnessing in India...a constitutional holocaust. (There is) an extraordinary identity between the rampage of Nazism in Germany in 1933 onwards and India in 2014

Goa Church has published an article in its magazine equating the Narendra Modi’s government at the Centre with the Germany’s Nazi rule, saying a sense of “constitutional holocaust” exists in India at present.

The article, written by citybased lawyer FE Noronha for Renovocao — the pastoral periodical of Archdiocese of Goa and Daman — implores the people of Goa not to vote in the upcoming bypoll for a candidate “who agrees with the nationwide fascism”, in an indirect reference to chief minister Manohar Parrikar who is contesting from the Panaji assembly. The by-election is scheduled for August 23.

“In 2012, everyone thought in terms of having a corruptionfree Goa; this thinking continued till 2014, but from then and increasingly everyday what we are witnessing in India is nothing but a constitutional holocaust. Corruption is very bad, communalism is worse, but Nazism is worse than both,” reads the article.

“Anybody who read William Shirer’s ‘The rise and fall of the Third Reich’ or Allan Bullocks’ ‘A study of tyranny’ or Hitler’s own ‘Mein Kamph’ will find an extraordinary identity between the growth and rampage of Nazism in Germany in 1933 onwards and India in 2014,” it further says.

Representing the state’s 26% catholic Christian community, the article also says that if the BJP loses the bypoll, the country could be saved from the “undemocratic doom” it is headed for. “The country is being ruled by two men and the rest are mere henchmen and running dogs. Please don’t vote for a person who is a mere subaltern of such individuals.

When contacted by HT, the CM, who was in Panaji for the launch of his election manifesto, said, “I do not want to say anything. If someone studies history of Germany, you will realise (the) contradiction.”