The protests over the arrest of two Keralite nuns on charges of kidnapping, human trafficking and forced conversion at the Durg Railway station in Chhattisgarh last Friday appeared to gather momentum in Kerala and New Delhi on Monday (July 28, 2025).
The protests also seemed to assume a politically bipartisan character with ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) MPs from Kerala protesting simultaneously outside Parliament, denouncing the “minority-hate-fuelled arrest of the nuns on “trumped up” charges.
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UDF MPs held placards denouncing the “Hindu right-wing” Bajrang Dal’s “coercive role” in the arrest of Sister Vandana Francis and Sister Preeta Mary of the order of the Assisi Sisters of Mary Immaculate (ASMI).
They said “Sangh Parivar activists had held a kangaroo court” at the railway station, falsely accusing the nuns of attempting to spirit away three women, including an Adivasi, to Agra for conversion to Christianity.
