PANJIM: A day after the Church’s statement urging the government to revoke Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAA), two Catholic ministers in the Dr Pramod Sawant-led government made contrasting statements on the issue.

Goa’s Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho said, “It is wrong for religious institutions to make statements, which create communal divide”.

On the other hand, Ports Minister Michael Lobo said, “Every religious leader has a right to guide his followers and I think politicians must not interfere in that.”

It may be recalled that the statement issued by the Diocesan Centre for Social Communications Media on Saturday had said, ‘“Archbishop and the Catholic community of Goa would like to appeal to the Government to listen to the voice of millions in India, to stop quashing the right to dissent and, above all, to immediately and unconditionally revoke the CAA and desist from implementing the NRC and the NPR”.