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'Good for Christians if Hindus avoid convent schools'
Panaji, April 8
Caitu Silva, a legislator of
the ruling alliance in Goa, on Wednesday sarcastically said that if
Hindus do not want to send their children to minority institution-run
convent schools, then Catholic students would stand a better chance of
admission.
"If Hindus don't want to send their children to
convents, then better for us. There will be more seats for Catholic
students to avail a better education," Silva told reporters at the state
secretariat on Wednesday.
The comments by Silva, a Goa Vikas
Party legislator from the Catholic-dominated Benaulim constituency, come
after a Goa cabinet minister and his wife have repeatedly exhorted
parents to avoid admitting their wards to minority institution-run
convent schools because they claim the education and atmosphere there
takes children away from Hindu culture.
Over the last three days
on numerous occasions, Goa's Factories and Boilers minister Deepak
Dhavalikar and his wife Lata have exhorted Hindu parents against sending
their children to convent schools.
The couple have also asked
women to wear kumkum (vermillion) and sarees to avoid being subjected to
eve-teasing and said that adoption of Western culture leads to rape.