BANGALORE:
Sister Jean, a British national better known as Sumanahalli Society's 'Mother Teresa', has been ordered to bid farewell to Bangalore, a city where she spent 30 years caring for leprosy patients. The 63-year-old said she wasn't given any reason by authorities and simply told to leave the country by Monday(today). 63-year-old Sr Jean, whose name is Jacqueline Jean McEwan.

She's from Newcastle and part of the Montfort Missionaries, a congregation of the Catholic church in England. She came to Bangalore in 1982 as part of the second batch of medics and paramedics to Sumanahalli. "We were allowed entry to India through the Commonwealth Agreement under which people of Commonwealth countries could travel to each other's countries without visas," she said.

When she applied for renewal of her resident permit in December 2010, she was denied permission to stay. "I don't know the reason. I've been living with the poor and needy all these years with the resident permit issued by the Foreigner Regional Registration Office (FRRO) in Bangalore. But this time, the central government denied the extension of the permit without assigning any reason

President of Global council of Indian Christians ,Dr sajan George said”We are sad and feel humiliated by the callous act of Karnataka government to expel sister Jean, a British national better known as Sumanahalli Society's 'Mother Teresa', She has been ordered to bid farewell to Bangalore, a city where she spent 30 years caring for leprosy patients.. She has been the strength for those in leprosy slums of Seshadripuram, Indirapuram and elsewhere. With the stigma attached to leprosy patients left on the streets to beg, she treated them undeterred by the stench and wounds. We feel the idea of India has been ripped out.The government of the religious fundamentalists with the retrograde ideology is trying to turn India into feudal theocratic state. The silence of the intelligentsia of India is far deafening than ever.GCIC demands the EU,Commonwealth and the UN to take cognizance of the inhuman act of Karnataka state and the mute response of federal Indian government