GUWAHATI: At a time when religious conversion has emerged as one of the controversial topics, the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) national general secretary, Y Raghavulu, has once again stirred the hornet’s nest with his claim that every year over eight lakh Hindus are being converted to other religions. On the sidelines of a function organized [...]
January 15, 2016
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“Mr Singhal died at 2.24 pm at Medanta Medicity hospital, Gurgaon,” VHP International President Pravin Togadia told media persons on Tuesday. 89-year-old Singhal was admitted on November 14 to Medanta following complaints of acute breathlessness and was diagnosed with right lower Lobe Pneumonia. Condoling his death PM Narendra Modi took to twitter and said his [...]
November 17, 2015
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ALLAHABAD: VHP today said it would offer extensive support to quake-ravaged Nepal by helping to rebuild residential houses, temples and shrines which have been flattened by the devastating temblor. The VHP will also bring orphaned children from the country to India and provide for their education and upbringing at its numerous educational institutions spread across [...]
April 28, 2015
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Articles, Nepal
It was a high-voltage drama in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday when police tried to take into custody a couple who had converted to Hinduism. However, activists of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal reached the police station and ensured that the couple were set free. The couple – Rajan Puri [...]
February 11, 2015
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On Christmas Day 2014, Delhi-based novelist Chandrahas Choudhury wrote in Bloomberg of a chilling vision of the future: an India that is 100 per cent Hindu. He insists that this is the long-term strategy of the RSS, the national volunteer Hindu organisation from which Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sprung. Careful to also condemn the [...]
December 27, 2014
Ranbir Singh
Analysis/Insights, Archives
Four men of a family who were arrested on Wednesday in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri for converting to Islam have done a U-turn. On Thursday, hours after being released by the police, they embraced Hinduism at a local temple in presence of Bajrang Dal activists. Religious conversions are allowed in the state only if they are [...]
September 6, 2014
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Dr. Pravin Togadia Hate Speech or another Case of Media Frame up? “Evict Muslims from Hindu areas … If he does not relent, go with stones, tyres and tomatoes to his office. There is nothing wrong in it. Killers of Rajiv Gandhi have not been hanged … there is nothing to fear and the case [...]
April 21, 2014
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Jammu, February 18, Bajrang Dal J&K and Vishaw Hindu Parishad have serious concerns over the running of Non vegetarian hotels and wine shops in Katra. In a statement issued to press said that Bajrang Dal asks Distt administration of Jammu to ensure that no meat shops are operated near vicinity of temples in Jammu city. [...]
February 25, 2014
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Jammu and Kashmir
The 11th Diwali celebration at the Ilford Exchange ( london) passed uneventfully except for for the underhand insertion of a tribute to Jesus performed by the young BharatNatyam artiste . It was the penultimate item in a programme of South Indian classical dance. A discerning on looker having come to participate in a celebration of the Hindu [...]
October 31, 2013
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Caste discrimination has now been included as a provision within the Equality Act. At the outset there may seem nothing objectionable in this. But scratch the surface and a sinister agenda emerges. The prime movers behind the new laws are not actually those suffering from caste discrimination but in fact a powerful well funded apparatus [...]
May 9, 2013
Ranbir Singh
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