Mangaluru: Following opposition from Hindu right-wing forums who threatened to stage a protest calling Swamy a “Urban Naxal,” the management of a private autonomous college in Karnataka has postponed its decision to name one of its parks after Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist Father Stan Swamy.
Fr. Melwin Joseph Pinto, Rector of St. Aloysius institutions and Vice-President of the Mangalore Jesuit Educational Society told NewsKarnataka that, “The plan was postponed as the police said they couldn’t provide any security as the President is visiting the State. They did not want us to hold it when we wanted it.”
He also stated that the management is yet to make a decision on when the event will take place. “It was supposed to be a private thing as it was in a small Miyawaki forest in the corner of one of our campuses. I’m not sure why they felt the need to bring up these controversies,” he added.
