May the VHP live long & happily because of the recent remarkable working they did.My full support with money,body & mind with such types of organizations.. Communal reconversions The VHP engages in several programs to forcefully reconvert Hindus who had previously converted to Christianity through their trained missionaries called "Dharma Prasaar Vibhag" (Religious Propaganda Cell), The VHP has deputed large number of its missionaries in those remote villages and tribal areas which have substantial Christians and Muslims. In recent years the VHP has emerged as one of the most active Hindu missionary organisation and has organised several mass forced as well as voluntary reconversion programmes of Christians and Muslims to Hinduism. In one of the recent programmes on 24th Feb 2012, it reconverted more than 3000 Tribal Christians from 658 families to Hinduism in Sundergadh district of Indian State of Orissa (as per Zee News);[13] similarly, it reconverted 228 Christian families to Hinduism on 28th Feb 2012 in Valsad District of Gujarat and in one of the another programmes organised on April 19, 2004, it converted 3200 Muslims belonging to Chita, Mehrat and Kathat caste in Beawar, Ajmer District, Rajasthan.On 11th Aug 2009 in Dindigul District in State of Tamil Nadu,all 207 Christians of Tamarikullam Village were converted to Hinduism by VHP,leaving no Christians in the village.[14] Also it reconverted 30 Christians from 8 Families to Hinduism on 29 Jun 2011 in Mumbai,where Anand Kumar Pande,the VHP Zonal Secretary,Mumbai stated that " It was our duty to bring back these poor & innocent people to Hindu faith since they were cheated by Christian missonaries through fake healings & converted to Christianity".[15] VHP also claims that villagers in rural parts of India were offered financial rewards for converting to Christianity and that those rewards never materialised, so their return to Hinduism was relatively straightforward.[16][17][18] Following the murder of Swami Lakshmanananda, the VHP engaged in reconversion programmes, involving both voluntary and forced reconversion.[18][19] In Punjab, the VHP has played an active role to prevent conversions of Sikhs even if they chose to choose their own religious path. The majority of them are low caste Sikhs converting to Christianity. This could be a result mostly from oppression by high caste Sikhs but there are considerable free will conversions among the higher class Sikhs too; however, the VHP have helped stopped Christian missionaries from converting Sikhs nonetheless.[20] The VHP collaborated with Christian Association for Social Action and played an active part in providing relief to both Hindu and Christian families affected by the Love Jihad activity in Kerala during 2003–2013 period.[21] In August 2008, the VHP blamed Christians for the murder of Swami Lakshmanananda,[22] though Maoist militants had claimed responsibility for the killing. In the resulting disorder, Christian settlements were set on fire,[23] and 250 Christians were forced to flee their villages.[24] The Roman Catholic Church claimed that at least 7 Christians were killed.[22] Various news sources also reported that a nun was raped during the violence.[25][26][27][28] A judicial commission probing the violence said that conversion and re-conversion were among the major factors that led to the disorder, without blaming any religious groups or the CPI (Maoist).[29] VHP also runs large number of schools & hostels for poor,especially in Tribal & rural areas of India & also provides medical aid to poor & impoverished in remote regions of India.
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