KOLKATA/NEW DELHI:
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat today came under fierce attack from Christian institutions and non-BJP parties for his controversial remarks on Mother Teresa that also echoed in Parliament where the Opposition sought to target the Government.
The remarks made by Bhagwat in Rajasthan yesterday that conversion to Christianity was the main objective behind Mother Teresa’s service to the poor were condemned as “rubbish” and “uncharitable” and an attempt to malign her.
The Government said it had nothing to do with Bhagwat’s remarks.
The Missionaries of Charity trashed Bhagwat’s claim, saying he was “misinformed”.
“He is misinformed. It should be absolutely clear that conversion was not going on when Mother was there, nor it is going on now. The whole motive is to serve the poor selflessly, bring joy and dignity into their lives,” Sunita Kumar, spokesperson of the organisation founded by Teresa in 1950, said in Kolkata.
A close confidant of the Mother for many years, she said, “I never saw anything like that (conversion) happening. It is all rubbish”.
Teresa, who died in 1997 in Kolkata, had won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize and was beatified as the “Blessed Teresa of Calcutta” in 2003.
Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loreto)’s Sister S M Cyril, who knew Teresa closely, said it was silly and stupid to think like that. (AGENCIES)
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