India, Aug. 6 -- Former Mumbai Police Commissioner and Director-General of Police, Gujarat and Punjab, Julio Ribeiro, recently expressed unhappiness with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for inducing 10 Congress MLAs to its side in Goa, deviating from its political philosophy and ethics. Recalling his friendship with Laxmi Kanta Chawla and Hit Abhilashi in terrorism-afflicted Punjab, Ribeiro says he felt the BJP would uphold "a different type of politics."

He himself "never voted for the BJP because the general run of minority thinking is that it is an exclusively Hindu party." What a strange political orthodoxy to espouse. However, he explains, "My Hindu ancestors in Goa were converted by the Portuguese more than four centuries ago. Sin...