A Kerala Jesuit priest named George Mutholil has been identified as the key strategist behind the current protests and unrest in New Delhi, according to a PGurus article. The demonstrations, organized by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), demand the resignation of Union Human Resource Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Although the agitation is publicly framed around opposition to the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for medical and dental college admissions, the deeper motive attributed to Mutholil is resistance to the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (Amendment) Bill of 2026, which seeks to tighten controls on foreign donations to religious bodies, NGOs, and evangelists.
This claim was highlighted by Prof. K. S. Radhakrishnan, former vice-chancellor of Sree Sankara Sanskrit University at Kalady. In a podcast with the social-media channel India Live, the professor described Mutholil as someone who harbours deep hostility toward Sanatana Dharma, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the RSS, and India as a nation. He called the priest’s present actions an attempt to permanently undermine the country and noted that priests and nuns are playing a prominent role in the campaign against the FCRA amendment.
Mutholil, who earlier served as director/principal of Loyola College in Thiruvananthapuram, keeps a deliberately low profile, stays off social media, and rarely appears at public events. He is portrayed as an undercover Vatican operative who combines evangelism with Maoist tactics. He allegedly recognised the anti-NEET protests as a useful opening and directed Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, to join and escalate the agitation in the capital. Even after the Prime Minister informed NDA MPs that 16 people linked to the NEET paper leak had been arrested and that the government would take every necessary step, Mutholil remained unsatisfied.
The Society of Jesus (Jesuits), founded in 1540 at the Vatican by the former soldier Ignatius of Loyola, is described as the most influential Catholic order. Its members are said to have embedded themselves in the administrative and policy structures of non-Christian countries to advance global evangelisation. In India they operate widely under the banner of social work while focusing on conversion. Their reach is illustrated by reported success in converting individuals even in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and al-Qaeda-influenced Saudi Arabia; the earlier kidnapping of Jesuit priest Alexis Premkumar from Tamil Nadu (later released after intervention by then External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj) is cited as an example.
Church leaders have taken their narrative to the international stage, claiming that minorities are under attack in India and that religious freedom does not exist. They point to anti-conversion laws passed by BJP-ruled states as evidence, even though the Indian Constitution contains no explicit provision guaranteeing a right to religious conversion. Mainstream media and many academics, particularly those associated with JNU, are accused of declining to challenge these assertions. Those who present contrary facts are often labelled communal or anti-secular. Mutholil is said to head the South Indian wing of the Jesuit order and to have been given wide latitude and resources by the Vatican for evangelisation, proselytisation, and church-building.
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