“I feel sorry for him (Narendra Modi),” says Mumbai’s celebrated former Police Commissioner, Julio Ribeiro -
“He is not involved in this matter but he will have to figure it out. If he doesn’t, at the end of five years, I doubt he’ll come back.”
The issue of attacks on minorities is back in focus after an under construction church was attacked in Haryana where miscreants replaced the idol with that of lord Hanuman.
Speaking with CNN-IBN Julio Ribeiro said, such incidents were driving India towards a situation similar to that in Pakistan - a country that is almost a failed state.
Ribeiro also said that the increase in such incidents puts the Prime Minister in a fix -
“Prime Minister Modi was elected to office on the promise of development. And if he fails to turn the economy around in the next five years he is in deep trouble.”
Speaking on the issue of keeping a check on the rise of such elements, Ribeiro said that such elements can be watched if they are a minority community but it is very difficult to watch them if they are from the majority community.
The former cop also spoke on the spate of conversions across the country -
“I am personally against conversions. Like Mother Teresa always said, we must convert people from the inside, to help them become good people because that is the basis of every religion.”
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