The Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la has added his voice to those con­demn­ing the des­e­cra­tion of the Bharatiya Vidya Ab­hyas Man­dali tem­ple in Curepe on Wednes­day.

In an of­fi­cial state­ment is­sued to­day, Dr. Rai Rag­bir MP was hope­ful that those re­spon­si­ble for “this hor­ren­dous act” will be brought to jus­tice by the au­thor­i­ties.

He made the ob­ser­va­tion that, “There are no more safe places left in T&T for cit­i­zens”, and he lament­ed this lat­est at­tack on a place of wor­ship.

“As a Chris­t­ian, I em­pathise with the devo­tees of the Bharatiya Vidya Ab­hyas Man­dali on the van­dal­ism of their mandir,” Dr Rag­bir stat­ed. “I can on­ly imag­ine the pain that they must feel to see their holy place of wor­ship des­e­crat­ed in such a vile man­ner.”

Point­ing to the cur­rent crime sit­u­a­tion in the coun­try, the Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la MP as­sert­ed that the coun­try “has al­ready lost its sense of safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty.”

“It would be an ab­solute tragedy if we were to lose the in­valu­able co­he­sive­ness and mu­tu­al re­spect that binds our mul­ti­cul­tur­al na­tion to­geth­er,” he said.  

He added: “I pray that one day soon, our cit­i­zens will once again be able to en­joy peace and se­cu­ri­ty in their homes, com­mu­ni­ties, work­places, schools and places of wor­ship.”