Dimapur, April 13 (MExN): The Bishop’s House Kohima today extended its endorsement to the Government of Nagaland and NBCC’s “NO” to Digital India Day on Good Friday.
While appreciating the effort of the Central Government to spread digital education, such laudable effort should not be at the cost of the secular and inclusive fabric of the nation, the Secretary to Bishop, Kohima Thomas Toretki said in a statement received here.
“Unity in diversity” has been the greatest strength and asset of the Indian ethos and any effort to dilute it by infringing upon the religious sentiments of any group of people will only bring division and disintegration of national unity and cohesiveness, it said.
The seemingly systematic and planned effort of some group to undermine and destroy the unity and integrity of India by sowing seeds of division and imposing uniformity and the cost of unity is detrimental to the progressive and visionary efforts of well intended leaders and they must guard and vigilantly disown and disassociate themselves from such forces, it added.
The statement further lamented the “callous attitude” of some leaders to infringe upon the religious sentiments of the Christian community by declaring “Good Governance Day” on Christmas day and now “Digital India Day” on Good Friday.
“It is hoped that our leaders while planning policies for the progressive development of the nation will strive to carry all the citizens along its stride,” it said.
Stating that the progress and development must not limited only to a mono-culture and mono-system and only to material and economic aspects, it said that the human being must also grow alongside.
“Human being must also grow and develop in their attitudes and actions; broaden their outlook and perspectives to accept and accommodate differences,” it added.
Noting that the development should not be at the cost of unity and integration, the statement instead called for letting “unity and integration, multi-culture and diversity be the cornerstone of India’s growth and progress.”
