The ink is hardly dry on the appointment of a Catholic priest to the Tamil Nadu public service commission, when the spreaders of hate and disinformation, have started their campaign.

But first, the facts:

Salesian Priest Arokia Raj Mariasurai is one of four newly appointed members to a government body that selects public servants in Tamil Nadu State.

The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday (July 13)  appointed four new members to the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC).

Christians took to social media to laud Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin for selecting the priest for the prestigious role.

IAS officer S. Munianathan, Professor K. Jothi Sivagnanam, K. Arulmathi and Fr. A. Raj Mariasusai are the new members appointed by the government.

Their term would be for six years or till they attain the age of 62, a Government Order issued in this regard said.

Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission is headed by the Chairman and comprises of fourteen other members, all appointed by the Governor of Tamil Nadu, in accordance with the above provisions of the Constitution of India.

The Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) is a department of the government of Tamil Nadu that is responsible for governing the recruitment of personnel into the state’s public service.

Mariasusai is a Christian priest of the Salesian order who is the Rector of Jnanodaya Salesian College located in The Retreat, Yercaud.

Jnanodaya Salesian College is a house of immediate post-novitiate training for the Salesian Provinces of India.

The hate spin begins

“Maoist sympathizing Christian priest appointed as TNPSC member by DMK govt” reads a ‘headline’ in the Hindutva Hardline portal “The Commune”

Excerpts of the post are in italics:

He is a problematic Christian priest and a sympathizer of Maoist Stan Swamy. The Retreat Don Bosco Yercaud, an organization which he is associated with, undertook a campaign and distributed ‘relief materials’ in honour of terror accused Stan Swamy who died recently.

Condemning the appointment of a Christian priest as a member of TNPSC that is responsible for choosing civil servants, a senior government official who wished to remain unidentified said “How would the DMK government react if the AIADMK or the BJP government appoints a person from a Hindu mutt or a monk from any of the Hindu spiritual organization is appointed as TNPSC member?”

Hello? Hasn’t the BJP appointed one Yogi Adityanath as a Chief Minister?

Another source The Commune spoke to said that Raj Mariasusai is known for spreading anti-Hindu thoughts and instigating people of the tribal community in the Salem-Yercaud region against the government.

He is also said to be indulging in illegal religious conversion of tribal communities by targeting their children through ‘alleged’ education and ‘skill development’ programmes.

Now, another portal “OpIndia”, using The Commune as a source, now carries the agenda further:

According to the reports, the Human Resources Management Department of Tamil Nadu Government issued an order notifying that they have appointed four new members to the Commission. Shockingly, Father Mariasusai, who is known as a sympathiser of left-wing terrorists, is one of the four members appointed by the Stalin-led DMK government to the TNPSC.

Mariasusai, a Christian priest of the Salesian order, is the Rector of Janodaya Salesian College located in The Retreat, Yercaud. Reportedly, Father Mariasusai has an extremely controversial past as he allegedly had a close relationship with recently deceased ‘Urban Naxal’ and fellow Christian priest Stanislaus Lourduswamy, aka Stan Swamy.

Recently, the Retreat Don Bosco Yercaud, an organization with which Father Mariasusai is associated, undertook a campaign to distribute relief materials in the far-left ‘activist’ Stan Lorduswamy. Stan Lourduswamy, commonly known as Stan Swamy, was an undertrial prisoner in the Elgar-Parishad Bhima Koregaon violence case, died last week at a Mumbai private hospital.

Stan Swamy was an Indian Roman Catholic priest, a member of the Jesuit order. Stan Swamy had been involved in anarchic activities for quite some time, however, his anti-India activities came to the fore after his role in the Elgar Parishad in 2018 surfaced during the investigation.

According to the NIA, Stan Swamy was a key conspirator in the Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad case of 2017, which witnessed violence, stone-pelting, and arson at Shaniwar Wada in Pune. He was arrested on October 8 and produced before the Special Court in Mumbai the following day. However, the far-left Naxal sympathiser died due to his old age and ill-health on July 5.

The agenda, as you see has already been set. Those who have the eyes to see and the grace to understand. be aware!

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