Of Temple and Church.

And the ways of the Politics.

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Digambar Kamat; A Congress MLA of Goa State Assembly with seven others, defected from the Congress party and joined the BJP.

When asked ;

"Why he left the Congress when earlier he had promised consolidity with the party..."

He said :

I went to temple and asked God what to do?,

And the God told him to do what is best to do for  him.

Accordingly and following his conscience he left the Congress party and joined the BJP.

The Congress called this "Operation Keechad".

Keechad in Hindi means : mud where the lotus takes roots.

Earlier, the Congress used to call the political activities of the BJP "Operation Lotus".

Then they found an alternative to "Lotus" and renamed the same as "Keechad".

But salient part of the story is ;  earlier he went to a temple and to a church also.

The temple and the church; both dominate the politics of Goa.

At both the places he directly addressed the God of his conviction and asked for God's consent.

There was no middleman any. No hint from any  priest, any book, yet some-one or some-thing else to decide and find out for him, what should be done by him.

We can't say if this God has a form or is He form-less one. Is He a personal God or an impersonal one, - either in the capacity of his own as a deity, or the Supreme Lord, the One that is supposed to govern the entire and the whole existence.

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