RSS leader meets Pala bishop

Kottayam: Valsan Thillenkery, RSS leader and working president of Hindu Aikya Vedi, visited Pala bishop Mar Joseph Kallarangatt on Friday. Speaking to TOI at Bishop’s House in Pala, Thillenkery said that the ‘narcotic jihad’ remark of the bishop was not impulsive. “What the bishop said is the Church’s stand, which was arrived at after a lot of study. That’s what I understood after meeting him,” he said. He added that the government should take all stakeholders into confidence. tnn