West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed on Monday that the Centre had frozen all bank accounts of the Missionaries of Charity, the organisation founded by late Nobel laureate Mother Teresa.
She tweeted, “Shocked to hear that on Christmas, Union Ministry FROZE ALL BANK ACCOUNTS of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in India! Their 22,000 patients & employees have been left without food & medicines. While the law is paramount, humanitarian efforts must not be compromised.” The Centre is yet to respond to the allegation.
Many rightwing groups have accused the Missionaries of Charity of being involved in conversion of people to Christianity.
Earlier this month, police in Vadodora launched an investigation into complaints of alleged conversion of residents of a shelter home run by the Missionaries of Charity in the city.
The Union of Catholic Asian News had reported that Jesuit Archbishop Stanislaus Fernandes, the apostolic administrator of Baroda Diocese, called the police action “an attempt to denigrate our institutions as instruments of [religious] conversions”.
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The Missionaries of Charity has around 5,000 nuns and manages over 750 care homes, of which 243 are in India, according to reports.
