Archbishop of Thalassery Mar Joseph Pamplany, recently in the news for offering support to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the election in lieu of an increased price of rubber, has once again raked up controversy with comments on political martyrs.
At the inauguration of the Youth Day celebration held at Cherupuzha here under the leadership of the Kerala Catholic Youth Movement on Saturday, the archbishop said that political martyrs were shot dead because they fought unnecessarily. “Some might have died after falling off a bridge when the police chased them during a demonstration,” he said.
He made the statement while referring to the martyrdom of the 12 apostles of Christ. “We must remember that the apostles were martyred because they stood for goodness, truth, virtue, and values of life,” he said.
