Palavanatham village in Tamil Nadu was hosting a church-run club for the holidays for around 50 children which, according to the school’s organiser, John Madhavan, was disrupted when two men trespassed on the property and demanded that the programme be stopped.
Reportedly, the men were overbearing and sharply questioned the children about their caste. Despite assurances by the organisers that the children were there at the consent of their parents, the two men continued to threaten everyone present and prevented anyone from leaving the premises while they alerted the police.
Mr Madhvan also said that the men are known to have threatened members of the church over the past year. No one was injured but the moment was described as “religious intolerance and intimidation” by Nehemiah Christie from the Synod of Pentecostal Churches.
The school was due to run until the end of this week but was cancelled after the incident.
Steven Selvaraj, South Asia team leader for the Christian freedom charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide told Premier: “While the session was taking place, two men actually had stormed into the session and properly interrupted the session and stopped the teaching and the singing”
He explained: “There’s been a political vacuum in South India…Tamil Nadu is one of the few countries that the RSS and the BJP have not had government there.”
The RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) are a Hindu…
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