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'Poll panel raid on priest creating communal tension'
Friday February 10, 2012 09:42:35 PM,
IANS
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Panaji: Even as the
Congress has accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of
inciting communalism in Goa, poll officials here have said that
they only stuck to official guidelines when they raided a Catholic
priest Tuesday, following an anonymous call.
"We have only acted as per the guidelines of the Election
Commission of India (ECI) according to which we have to seize any
amount of money found during a raid (on Tuesday)," Joint Chief
Electoral Officer N.S. Navti told reporters here Friday.
Navti said that the raided parish priest of Velim, Romano
Gonsalves, had met him along with the local legislator and
Congress minister Filipe Neri Rodrigues. "The delegation has
demanded an apology," Navti said, adding that the raiding party
officials had stuck to the rule book.
On Thursday Rajya Sabha MP from the Congress Shantaram Naik, in a
letter to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, had said: "It is the
duty of the Election Commission to prevent acts which may lead to
communal tension. Instead, Election Commission/Chief Electoral
Officer's act, unfortunately, may flare-up tension."
Newly appointed state Congress working president Francisco
Sardinha also condemned the ECI action saying that "everybody
today carries Rs.6,000 in their wallets".
On Tuesday Fr Romano Gonsalves was raided by a flying squad
authorized by the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), after an
anonymous caller claimed that the priest was distributing money on
behalf of a candidate.
The Income Tax officials attached to the squad recovered Rs.6,000
from the priest in course of the raid in Velim, 50 km from here.
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