Into the New Year in 1947 the general trust of the population saw a political organization want to present him as a candidate in its election but he refused this for he deemed politics to be a strange and different realm for him that he did not want to associate himself with. But there soon became great unrest in the region in which priests and nuns were being rounded up before a full uprising broke out. He accepted his father's invitation to return to his old hometown on 30 March 1947 but returned home on 9 April after hearing of massacres near his home where he also learned of the rounding up of the religious. Botovasoa was well aware that he could be captured and killed due to his status as a religious educator but did not fear what would happen to him.