A government school teacher in Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari district reportedly made objectionable remarks about Hindus and indulged in preaching Christianity to her students.
Beatrice Thangam works as a tailoring and sewing teacher at the Government Higher Secondary school located in Kannattuvilai of Kanyakumari district.
In a video, a student studying class 6 in the school can be heard accusing her teacher Beatrice Thangam of derogating Hindus as ‘sathaan‘ (devil) and glorifying Christianity.
“She asks us to read Bible. We told her that we are Hindus and we read only Bhagavad Gita. She told that Bhagavat Gita is bad and asked us to read Bible as it had good philosophy.”, the student narrates in the video.
The girl student also says in the video that the teacher told stories about a Christian and a ‘saathaan’, referring to Hindus as devils.
She also says that the teacher makes students to stitch the Christian Cross and forces them to kneel down and recite Christian prayers.
When asked if only she was subject to such forced conversion, the student says that the teacher does it with all Hindu students.
Full Video (with subtitles) of the class 6 student complaining about conversion activity in her school. pic.twitter.com/NULWQ9fk6c
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After the incident came to light, the initial inquiry was done by the District Education Officer (DEO) and the School Education Department has now suspended the teacher.
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