Will weigh you in gold if you behead Karunanidhi: VHP's latest
Express News Service
AYODHYA/LUCKNOW, SEPTEMBER 21: Senior VHP leader and former BJP MP Ram
Vilas Vedanti on Friday declared at a press conference that VHP saints of
Ayodhya would weigh in gold anyone who beheaded Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M
Karunanidhi and cut out his tongue.
Speaking out against the BJP's opposition to the Ram Sethu project,
Karunanidhi had recently questioned the existence of Lord Ram and said that
Valmiki described him as a drunkard.
"We will follow the commandments of our religion and nobody can stop us,"
said Vedanti. He said the VHP would file a complaint and a lawsuit against
Karunanidhi in Ayodhya.
Vedanti's statement has got the endorsement of the BJP and VHP units of
Uttar Pradesh. Said Hridaya Narain Dixit, the spokesperson of the BJP's
Uttar Pradesh unit, "Karunanidhi has demeaned Lord Ram, and what Vedanti has
said only reflects the sentiments of crores of people across the nation."
VHP organisational secretary Trilokiji said he had not heard exactly what
Vedanti said, but the VHP would not oppose Vedanti on anything he said
against Karunanidhi for the comments on Lord Ram.
"This is because all Hindus of the country are one against Karunanidhi,"
said Trilokiji.
Meanwhile, VHP leader Vishnu Hari Dalmiya said at a seminar in Gorakhpur
that the UPA government's insensitivity towards the religious feelings of
the majority community had led to the Ram Sethu controversy. He said Ram
Sethu was a unique structure and that studies had shown it was not man-made.
Dalmiya criticised Karunanidhi and the BJP for trying to derive political
mileage from the issue.
*Source:* http://www.indianexpress.com/story/219746.html#
September 22, 2007
September 12, 2007
Ram Setu: VHP road blockades across India
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is conducting a nation-wide road blockade on 12 September 2007 to oppose the government's proposal to make a waterway through the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka.
April 30, 2007
Shiv Sainiks instructed to burn Laine's book
Bookshop owners won't stock Laine's Shivaji
By: Urvashi Seth
(Mid-Day, April 30, 2007) After Bal Thackeray’s announcement that he instructed Sainiks to burn the copies of the James Laine’s book, Shivaji — Hindu King in Islamic India, in public, book sellers have become apprehensive about stocking copies of the book.
On Thursday, the Bombay High Court lifted the ban on the book.
According to sources, the Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Sena (BVS) has warned bookshop owners not to keep copies of the book or face strict action.
“Being a part of the Sena, we have requested all bookshop owners not to stock James Laine’s book,” said Abhijeet Panse, president of BVS.
Mandar Nerulkar, owner of the Ideal Book Depot, Dadar, said they won’t be selling the book after Bal Thackeray’s comments.
“The book has many defaming statements against Shivaji. Even though the court has lifted the ban we won’t be selling it, especially after we heard that Shiv Sena has taken an aggressive stance on the issue.”
“It’s very likely that the book won’t be coming into the market. If it comes, we will decide whether to stock it,” said Rohit Tengle of Book Zone at CST
By: Urvashi Seth
(Mid-Day, April 30, 2007) After Bal Thackeray’s announcement that he instructed Sainiks to burn the copies of the James Laine’s book, Shivaji — Hindu King in Islamic India, in public, book sellers have become apprehensive about stocking copies of the book.
On Thursday, the Bombay High Court lifted the ban on the book.
According to sources, the Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Sena (BVS) has warned bookshop owners not to keep copies of the book or face strict action.
“Being a part of the Sena, we have requested all bookshop owners not to stock James Laine’s book,” said Abhijeet Panse, president of BVS.
Mandar Nerulkar, owner of the Ideal Book Depot, Dadar, said they won’t be selling the book after Bal Thackeray’s comments.
“The book has many defaming statements against Shivaji. Even though the court has lifted the ban we won’t be selling it, especially after we heard that Shiv Sena has taken an aggressive stance on the issue.”
“It’s very likely that the book won’t be coming into the market. If it comes, we will decide whether to stock it,” said Rohit Tengle of Book Zone at CST
Christian preacher attacked in Jaipur
Masked intruders go on rampage in house in the vicinity of Chief Minister's official residence
— Photo: PTI
(The Hindu,
April 30, 2007)
Christian preacher attacked in Jaipur
Special Correspondent
BEFORE AND AFTER: Getting ready for the attack on preacher Walter Massey are some men who are covering their faces.
JAIPUR: Masked youth attacked and seriously injured a Christian preacher and went on the rampage in his house in the neighbourhood of the official residence of the Rajasthan Chief Minister here on Sunday afternoon. Walter Massey has been admitted to the emergency ward of the Sawai Man Singh Medical College Hospital here. Authorities there termed his condition stable. No arrest has been made so far.
Mr. Massey runs a small congregation, `Masihi Sanghti,' from his middleclass residence at Nandpuri Bazar. The intruders, numbering 15-20, used sticks and whatever came in handy to attack Mr. Masseyin the presence of his wife and child.
His wife Joyce told this correspondent that initially three persons came seeking to meet her husband. When the door was opened, they engaged the preacher in a conversation and in no time started assaulting him. And more men, covering their faces, joined in the attack.
As the attackers dragged a profusely bleeding Massey out of the house, a neighbour Samuel Roberts, who was passing by, rushed to the Sodala police station, half km away.
Ms. Joyce and the child were not hurt though the intruders broke plastic chairs, utensils and furniture.
— Photo: PTI
The image of the bleeding missionary.
Mr. Roberts said there were around 25 men, who covered their faces and were wielding sticks, outside Mr. Massey's residence.
Assailants on video
Additional Superintendent of Police (South) Subhash Vishnoi said the police were trying to identify the persons spotted on a video on the incident telecast by some TV channels. A case has been registered.
The Congress, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind condemned the attack.
Congress general secretary Ashok Gehlot termed it a "very serious matter" and demanded the immediate arrest of the culprits.
"Vishwa Hindu Parishad workers have once again taken law into their own hands in the name of stopping religious conversions in the State and this is condemnable." CPI (M) State secretary Vasudev said, "The Chief Minister and the Home Minister should take the responsibility for the attack," which occurred in the Civil Lines locality."Hardly four days ago did workers of the BJP-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarti Parishad attempt to attack the CPI (M) State headquarters on Hatwara Road, he alleged.
Engineer Mohammed Saleem, new president of the State Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, said the attack put a question mark on the very existence of a government in the State.
April 11, 2007
Bajrang Dal activists take to streets over inter-religious marriage
(The Hindu
April 12, 2007)
Madhya Pradesh
Bajrang Dal activists take to streets over inter-community marriage
Staff Correspondent
Photo: A.M. Faruqui
THE CD EFFECT: Bajrang Dal activists protesting against inter-community marriage, in Bhopal on Wednesday.
BHOPAL: Resistance to inter-community marriage was in full display when some splinter groups of Bajrang Dal came out in strength and blocked traffic here on Wednesday in protest against two alleged cases of Hindu girls marrying Muslim boys.
The other day, a girl's father had lodged a `missing person' complaint and the police had started investigating it. On the basis of inputs provided by the father, members of an influential family from another community were interrogated.
The district Superintendent of Police, A. K. Singh, told The Hindu that they were investigating the matter and there was no coercion from any side. The girl had reportedly called up the police over phone saying she had married one Umar with her consent and both of them were adults. She was asked to appear before the Bhopal police or a magistrate to make her statement, the SP said, adding that she chose to appear before the Mumbai High Court and gave her statement.
Bhopal DIG of Police Anuradha Shankar said the police were following the standard procedure in response to the complaint filed by the girl's father. She said the police were not aware of the content of her statement before the High Court. She also refuted allegations against the police and said there had been no illegal detention during the course of the inquiry.
Even as some activist groups belonging to the majority community were agitating over the issue, news spread here that another Hindu girl, a Class XII student from an English medium school, had eloped with a boy from another community. During preliminary investigations, in response to an FIR lodged by the girl's father under Section 366 of the Indian Penal Code which deals with kidnapping, the police have found from the girl's house an affidavit dated March 20, signed by one Rehan, stating that he has changed his religion and his name would now be Rohan. Further investigations revealed that the boy and the girl were married at a local Arya Samaj temple on March 21 and the police have secured a wedding photograph.
Meanwhile, some groups, including members of Bharatiya Janshakti, blocked road traffic at several places here protesting against the "increasing trend of Hindu girls marrying Muslim boys". A call for Bhopal bandh on Thursday has been given by a newly formed outfit called "Hindu Kanya Raksha Samiti". A section of Bajrang Dal activists and those belonging to the majority community were meeting here on Wednesday evening to decide their future strategy.
April 05, 2007
Hyperlink to Hinduphobia
Inside Bay Area
Finding Hindu hatred online
Fremont-based group monitors Web sites promoting intolerance
By Chris De Benedetti, STAFF WRITER
Article Last Updated: 04/04/2007 02:47:08 AM PDT
FREMONT — Longtime organizations that seek to rid the world of religious and racial intolerance have been monitoring Web sites they consider hateful since the medium became available worldwide more than a decade ago.
Now, the Hindu American Foundation, led and founded by Fremont physician Mihir Meghani, is trying to follow the lead of those groups to win a similar battle.
The result is the group's
52-page report titled "Hyperlink to Hinduphobia: Online Hatred, Extremism and Bigotry Against Hindus."
Recently authored by the foundation, the report says that exposing online hate speech is a crucial front in the fight against negative stereotypes about the Hindu religion.
Hinduism is most closely associated with India but has followers around the world. Many Hindus believe in concepts such as karma and reincarnation and in practices including yoga, meditation and a vegetarian diet. The religion also encompasses beliefs ranging from monism — the belief there is just one god — to polytheism — the belief in more than one god, according to the report.
These notable differences from Judeo-Christian beliefs sometimes make it an unfair target of ridicule, Meghani said.
"Though it is less well-known in this country, anti-Hindu bigotry is every bit as ugly and dangerous as anti-Semitism or racism, and every bit as present on the Internet," Jeffery Long, chair of the Religious Studies Department at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania,
wrote in the report's foreword.
The report lists 37 Web sites that allegedly are guilty of hate speech toward Hinduism, Meghani said. Words such as "demonic, dirty and filthy" are used on the Web sites to describe the religion, the report states.
"We have to get rid of the idea that 'my path is better than yours,'" Meghani said. "We have to move beyond hate."
Meghani founded the Maryland-based Hindu American Foundation. It has about 5,000 members nationwide.
Its leaders seeks to follow the lead of the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, each of which combat anti-Semitism and racism on the Worldwide Web and beyond. Meghani applauds Jewish groups that have lobbied Internet service providers and search-engine giants such as Google and Yahoo to get rid of online anti-Semitism.
It is a model that Meghani wants to follow.
"This is our attempt to get into that national debate," said Meghani, a Fremont resident since 2000. "If we don't take that responsibility, no one else will."
Hinduism is the most popular religion in India, which has a population of roughly 1 billion people. But American Hindus number only about 2 million in a nation of 300 million, making them less than 1 percent of the population.
"That means we don't have control of how we're represented," Meghani said.
The majority of the Web sites identified in the report as being "anti-Hindu" are Christian. But Hindu American Foundation leaders say their goal is to promote understanding among different religions — not to point fingers.
"I think everyone faces discrimination at some point. This is something everyone should take up," Meghani said. "None of us like to have our religions denigrated, so it makes sense for us to work together to build a better society.
Chris De Benedetti covers Fremont issues. Contact him at (510) 353-7002 or cdebenedetti@angnewspapers.com.
Finding Hindu hatred online
Fremont-based group monitors Web sites promoting intolerance
By Chris De Benedetti, STAFF WRITER
Article Last Updated: 04/04/2007 02:47:08 AM PDT
FREMONT — Longtime organizations that seek to rid the world of religious and racial intolerance have been monitoring Web sites they consider hateful since the medium became available worldwide more than a decade ago.
Now, the Hindu American Foundation, led and founded by Fremont physician Mihir Meghani, is trying to follow the lead of those groups to win a similar battle.
The result is the group's
52-page report titled "Hyperlink to Hinduphobia: Online Hatred, Extremism and Bigotry Against Hindus."
Recently authored by the foundation, the report says that exposing online hate speech is a crucial front in the fight against negative stereotypes about the Hindu religion.
Hinduism is most closely associated with India but has followers around the world. Many Hindus believe in concepts such as karma and reincarnation and in practices including yoga, meditation and a vegetarian diet. The religion also encompasses beliefs ranging from monism — the belief there is just one god — to polytheism — the belief in more than one god, according to the report.
These notable differences from Judeo-Christian beliefs sometimes make it an unfair target of ridicule, Meghani said.
"Though it is less well-known in this country, anti-Hindu bigotry is every bit as ugly and dangerous as anti-Semitism or racism, and every bit as present on the Internet," Jeffery Long, chair of the Religious Studies Department at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania,
wrote in the report's foreword.
The report lists 37 Web sites that allegedly are guilty of hate speech toward Hinduism, Meghani said. Words such as "demonic, dirty and filthy" are used on the Web sites to describe the religion, the report states.
"We have to get rid of the idea that 'my path is better than yours,'" Meghani said. "We have to move beyond hate."
Meghani founded the Maryland-based Hindu American Foundation. It has about 5,000 members nationwide.
Its leaders seeks to follow the lead of the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, each of which combat anti-Semitism and racism on the Worldwide Web and beyond. Meghani applauds Jewish groups that have lobbied Internet service providers and search-engine giants such as Google and Yahoo to get rid of online anti-Semitism.
It is a model that Meghani wants to follow.
"This is our attempt to get into that national debate," said Meghani, a Fremont resident since 2000. "If we don't take that responsibility, no one else will."
Hinduism is the most popular religion in India, which has a population of roughly 1 billion people. But American Hindus number only about 2 million in a nation of 300 million, making them less than 1 percent of the population.
"That means we don't have control of how we're represented," Meghani said.
The majority of the Web sites identified in the report as being "anti-Hindu" are Christian. But Hindu American Foundation leaders say their goal is to promote understanding among different religions — not to point fingers.
"I think everyone faces discrimination at some point. This is something everyone should take up," Meghani said. "None of us like to have our religions denigrated, so it makes sense for us to work together to build a better society.
Chris De Benedetti covers Fremont issues. Contact him at (510) 353-7002 or cdebenedetti@angnewspapers.com.
March 27, 2007
Nepal Defence Army wants Hindu state reinstated
(The Hindu
March 27, 2007)
Bomb planted at media office in Nepal
Kathmandu, March 27 (PTI): A bomb was hurled at the regional office of the Kantipur Publication in Biratnagar in eastern Nepal but nobody was injured as it did not explode, media report said today.
The bomb was hurled yesterday by a group calling itself the eastern command of Nepal Defence Army, which is fighting for reinstating Nepal as a Hindu state, The Kathmandu Post reported.
The group detonated another bomb inside the premises of McDowell's Company at Tankisinwari in Morang at the same time but without causing any damage.
The NDA owned responsibility in pamphlets they left at the incident site.
March 27, 2007)
Bomb planted at media office in Nepal
Kathmandu, March 27 (PTI): A bomb was hurled at the regional office of the Kantipur Publication in Biratnagar in eastern Nepal but nobody was injured as it did not explode, media report said today.
The bomb was hurled yesterday by a group calling itself the eastern command of Nepal Defence Army, which is fighting for reinstating Nepal as a Hindu state, The Kathmandu Post reported.
The group detonated another bomb inside the premises of McDowell's Company at Tankisinwari in Morang at the same time but without causing any damage.
The NDA owned responsibility in pamphlets they left at the incident site.
VHP to float 'Hindu Matdata Manch'
(The Times of India
CITIES: LUCKNOW)
VHP to float 'Hindu Matdata Manch'
[ 25 Mar, 2007 0332hrs IST TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
LUCKNOW: To prevent the division of Hindu votes in the coming assembly elections, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has decided to float a new forum, 'Hindu Matdata Manch'.
Talking to reporters here on Saturday, the international president of VHP Ashok Singhal said that the first and the foremost issue for the VHP was to prevent division of Hindu votes during the assembly elections. "For that the VHP has decided to constitute a new forum in the name of Hindu Matdata Manch. This organisation will work day in and day night to keep the Hindu votes intact," said Singhal.
While refraining from declaring its open support to the Bharatiya Janata Party, the VHP leader said that his organisation will lend its support to an outfit or a candidate which will pledge to implement the Hindu agenda'. "On our agenda there are seven issues including construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya, goraksha, fight against terrorism and internal security," said Singhal.
Holding the Congress, the SP and the BSP responsible for creating a wedge in 'Hindu society' on the pretext of pseudo-secularism, Singhal said that the new forum floated by the VHP would strive to consolidate the Hindu votes.
Though the VHP chief praised former state chief minister Kalyan Singh by saying that "Hindus mat avam hit surakshit hai unke haath mein," refused to answer queries on whether his outfit would pledge its open support to the BJP.
Referring to Rahul Gandhi's remark on Babri mosque demolition, Singhal said that it was now clear that the Congress wanted to build a mosque at the disputed site in Ayodhya.
CITIES: LUCKNOW)
VHP to float 'Hindu Matdata Manch'
[ 25 Mar, 2007 0332hrs IST TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
LUCKNOW: To prevent the division of Hindu votes in the coming assembly elections, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has decided to float a new forum, 'Hindu Matdata Manch'.
Talking to reporters here on Saturday, the international president of VHP Ashok Singhal said that the first and the foremost issue for the VHP was to prevent division of Hindu votes during the assembly elections. "For that the VHP has decided to constitute a new forum in the name of Hindu Matdata Manch. This organisation will work day in and day night to keep the Hindu votes intact," said Singhal.
While refraining from declaring its open support to the Bharatiya Janata Party, the VHP leader said that his organisation will lend its support to an outfit or a candidate which will pledge to implement the Hindu agenda'. "On our agenda there are seven issues including construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya, goraksha, fight against terrorism and internal security," said Singhal.
Holding the Congress, the SP and the BSP responsible for creating a wedge in 'Hindu society' on the pretext of pseudo-secularism, Singhal said that the new forum floated by the VHP would strive to consolidate the Hindu votes.
Though the VHP chief praised former state chief minister Kalyan Singh by saying that "Hindus mat avam hit surakshit hai unke haath mein," refused to answer queries on whether his outfit would pledge its open support to the BJP.
Referring to Rahul Gandhi's remark on Babri mosque demolition, Singhal said that it was now clear that the Congress wanted to build a mosque at the disputed site in Ayodhya.
March 19, 2007
Boycott of non-Hindu businesses in Kerala
Discussion at www.haindavakeralam.org
suggests efforts to replicate Gujarat stycle boycott of muslim businesses in Kerala
suggests efforts to replicate Gujarat stycle boycott of muslim businesses in Kerala
March 08, 2007
Uttarakhand, Chief Minister B C Khanduri seeks blessings of Hindu religious heads
B.C. Khanduri (A former general in the India army) is blessed by sadhus after being sworn in as Uttrakhand's Chief Minister, in Dehra Dun on March 8, 2007.
February 14, 2007
Sticks and Swords against Valentine's day
Muscle-flexing
(The Telegraph
February 12, 2007)
Sticks out for V-Day
RASHEED KIDWAI
Bhopal, Feb. 11: It’s meant to be a festival of love, but the preparations couldn’t have been more warlike.
Sticks are being polished and swords have come out of their sheaths as Valentine’s Day nears in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh.
Even axes have been kept ready in case it comes to a showdown — between those against celebrating a western “concept” and their rivals who wouldn’t brook any interference in personal freedoms.
The Bajrang Dal and the Shiv Sena are determined to “stop” what he called “the attack on Indian culture”.
Vishal Purohit, who heads the Dal’s Bhopal unit, said: “We have prepared our sticks by worshipping them to use against people who promote western culture.” Purohit said he and his men will visit hotels and restaurants and stop celebrations on February 14. State Sena chief Rajendra Gupta said his men will “do whatever possible to stop the celebrations”.
On the other side of the divide, the Swaran Mahila Morcha, an outfit that claims to represent upper castes, said its women would use “sword, gada (mace) and battleaxe” to take on the Dal. Another group, the Rashtriya Secular Manch, said it would field stick-wielding women to “provide security to citizens which the Shivraj Singh Chauhan regime has failed to provide”.
“If the Bajrang Dal uses force, we will match them,” said Monu Saxena, state general secretary of the Congress’s National Student Union of India.
State police chief Anand Rao Pawar has asked district police chiefs to ensure that nobody interferes with the personal freedom of anyone.
In the last three years that the BJP has been in power in Madhya Pradesh, the day has seen violent clashes. Even brothers and sisters were made to do sit-ups for travelling together.
Madhya Pradesh: Bajrang Dal activists burn V-Day Cards
MP readies guns and roses for V-Day
IANS
Posted Tuesday , February 13, 2007 at 18:03
DARING DISSENT: Bajrang Dal activists display V-Day cards before burning them in Bhopal.
Bhopal: Even as the Hindu rightwing Bajrang Dal gains support from a Muslim group to oppose Valentine's Day celebrations in Madhya Pradesh, it faces women's groups vowing to protect young lovers from such moral policing.
A voluntary group of Muslims headed by Maulana Anis S Ahmad has appealed to people not to celebrate western festivals, but to follow Indian culture.
"We urge the youngsters not to be influenced by western culture," said Ahmed, who, however, discouraged the use of force to stop anyone from celebrating the day.
Two women's groups, belonging to the Sawarna Samaaj Party (SSP) and the Rashtriya Secular Manch (RSM), have decided to take on those threatening to oppose Valentine's Day celebrations in the state, ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
If the SSP is threatening Bajrang Dal members with a mace (lord Hanuman's weapon), the RSM has decided to form baton-wielding groups of women to dissuade Bajrang Dal activists from disrupting lovers on Wednesday.
"These women will provide the necessary security to citizens if the state government fails to do so," said RSM convenor Chandna Arora. "We will follow the Bajrang Dal workers on February 14 to prevent them from misbehaving with lovers."
The Congress' student wing National Students' Union of India (NSUI) has also decided to oppose "any act of the Bajrangis".
"NSUI workers would first give roses to Bajrang Dal workers while requesting them not to disturb anyone. Then they would inform the police in case anyone is harassed and lastly take the law into their own hands if the police fails to act," said NSUI state secretary Abhay Kushal Tiwari.
The NSUI has formed teams to defend lovers in case of harassment and even launched a helpline.
State officials said police forces had been deployed in hotels, restaurants and picnic spots across the state in view of the warning.
"We will not let anyone interfere in the personal freedom of a person. Action will be taken against anybody trying to violate the law," said superintendent of police Anant Kumar Singh in Bhopal.
The Hindutva campaign against amour will be carried on by a vivah rath (marriage chariot) manned by activists of Dharma Sena and Durga Vahini - two Hindu organisations.
"We will catch hold of couples meeting in public places, parks and restaurants and get them married. If they will not marry, the girl will have to tie a rakhi (a thread on the wrist establishing brother-sister relation)," said Bajrang Dal leader Rajendra Gupta.
"The couples will be more afraid of marriage than a scolding, beating or blackened faces," he said, adding that after the marriage the boys and girls would be handed over to their family members.
Notwithstanding such threats, youngsters are thronging gift stores for cards, chocolates and stuffed toys for their valentine.
Sena begins moral-policing in Jaipur
Sena begins moral-policing in Jaipur
(CNN-IBN
February 13, 2007 at 19:13)
LOVE LOST: Protestors say they wanted to warn couples from being caught in public places ahead of Valentine\'s Day.
New Delhi: Reports of moral policing by right wing organisations during Valentine's Day celebrations have already started pouring in.
Around 24 Shiv Sainiks protested in Jaipur by burning greeting cards in a shop. Soon after, they headed for the city's Central Park, pulled up couples sitting there, and forced them to leave.
Protestors say they wanted to warn couples from being caught in public places ahead of Valentine's Day, which according to them goes against Indian Culture.
February 11, 2007
Valentine's Day against our culture: RSS
NDTV.COM
Valentine's Day against our culture: RSS
Press Trust of India
Sunday, February 11, 2007 (Bhopal):
Claiming that Valentine's Day celebration was against Indian tradition, RSS on Sunday said the Sangh was not averse to the concept of love or marriage but opposed its exhibition under influence of Western culture.
"There is no ban on love marriage in the country. Sangh believes in love and that marriage is a part of Indian tradition we have been following as a lifetime commitment," RSS executive committee member Ram Madhav said.
"We are against lewdness during Valentine Day celebrations and the blind race to follow Western culture," he said addressing a function held during the birth centenary year of former Sang leader M S Golwalkar.
People might object to the manner in which some protests are staged but Valentine's Day has no rationale in India, he added.
"If a couple is in love, why don't they get married instead of celebrating the day every year?" he said.
Pseudo-secularists
Claiming to have asked "some people" to identify such couples, the RSS leader said "our women's wing members will meet their parents with a suggestion to get them married."
Referring to the Hindu Sammelan organised as part of Golwalkar's birth centenary celebrations, Ram Madhav refuted allegations that functions lead to riots in Madhya Pradesh. Similar meets were held across the country peacefully.
"It is all a creation psuedo-secularists," he added.
Announcing plans of concluding ceremony of birth centenary year celebrations in New Delhi on February 18, he earlier told reporters that senior Hindu leaders, including BJP leader L K Advani and Bhartiya Janshakti President Uma Bharti, were invited for it.
Valentine's Day against our culture: RSS
Press Trust of India
Sunday, February 11, 2007 (Bhopal):
Claiming that Valentine's Day celebration was against Indian tradition, RSS on Sunday said the Sangh was not averse to the concept of love or marriage but opposed its exhibition under influence of Western culture.
"There is no ban on love marriage in the country. Sangh believes in love and that marriage is a part of Indian tradition we have been following as a lifetime commitment," RSS executive committee member Ram Madhav said.
"We are against lewdness during Valentine Day celebrations and the blind race to follow Western culture," he said addressing a function held during the birth centenary year of former Sang leader M S Golwalkar.
People might object to the manner in which some protests are staged but Valentine's Day has no rationale in India, he added.
"If a couple is in love, why don't they get married instead of celebrating the day every year?" he said.
Pseudo-secularists
Claiming to have asked "some people" to identify such couples, the RSS leader said "our women's wing members will meet their parents with a suggestion to get them married."
Referring to the Hindu Sammelan organised as part of Golwalkar's birth centenary celebrations, Ram Madhav refuted allegations that functions lead to riots in Madhya Pradesh. Similar meets were held across the country peacefully.
"It is all a creation psuedo-secularists," he added.
Announcing plans of concluding ceremony of birth centenary year celebrations in New Delhi on February 18, he earlier told reporters that senior Hindu leaders, including BJP leader L K Advani and Bhartiya Janshakti President Uma Bharti, were invited for it.
February 01, 2007
Compartments of Godan Express set on fire by a Hindutva mob
Godan Exp torched, curfew in Gorakhpur
CNN-IBN
Posted Thursday , February 01, 2007 at 23:32
BURNING TRAIN: Two compartments of Godan Express have been set on fire by a mob.
New Delhi: Two compartments of Mumbai-Chhapra Godan Express have been set on fire by a mob at Mohammadabad railway station near Mau in Uttar Pradesh.
The area is close to Gorakhpur, which has been under curfew after communal clashes.
Hindu Yuva Vahini activists – protesting the arrest of BJP MP from Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath – are suspected behind the incident.
As many as 68 passenger trains to and from Gorakhpur have been cancelled after setting ablaze of 213 up Gorakhpur-Gonda passenger train at Tulsipur in Balrampur on Wednesday.
DM of Mau P Guruprasad said, Gorakpur is already tense and under curfew. Paramilitary forces and other security personnel remained deployed in strength at all sensitive places as precautionary measure.
CNN-IBN
Posted Thursday , February 01, 2007 at 23:32
BURNING TRAIN: Two compartments of Godan Express have been set on fire by a mob.
New Delhi: Two compartments of Mumbai-Chhapra Godan Express have been set on fire by a mob at Mohammadabad railway station near Mau in Uttar Pradesh.
The area is close to Gorakhpur, which has been under curfew after communal clashes.
Hindu Yuva Vahini activists – protesting the arrest of BJP MP from Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath – are suspected behind the incident.
As many as 68 passenger trains to and from Gorakhpur have been cancelled after setting ablaze of 213 up Gorakhpur-Gonda passenger train at Tulsipur in Balrampur on Wednesday.
DM of Mau P Guruprasad said, Gorakpur is already tense and under curfew. Paramilitary forces and other security personnel remained deployed in strength at all sensitive places as precautionary measure.
January 31, 2007
Bajrang Dal activists held for robbing foreigners
(Indian Express
January 31, 2007)
Bajrang Dal activists held for robbing foreigners
Milind Ghatwai
Madhya pradesh: Were tipped off S Africans were carrying beef, turned out to be pork, chicken
BHOPAL, JANUARY 30: Acting on a wrong tip-off, Bajrang Dal activists on Monday beat up two South Africans, accusing them of carrying beef, near Bhajipani village in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh. The activists also damaged the vehicle in which the foreigners were travelling to Nagpur and snatched their mobile phones and wallets.
According to reports, the foreigners — Gordon (44) and Jacob (52), both working with Western Coalfields Limited — were carrying broiler chicken and pork when a group of around 15 Bajrang Dal activists stopped them. The activists accused them of carrying beef and beat them up.
Chhindwara Superintendent of Police R K Sihore told The Indian Express that a case of dacoity has been registered against the Bajrang Dal activists. Sihore also said that four of the activists have already been arrested and the others would be taken into custody soon.
The victims were on their way to Nagpur — the headquarters of WCL — since one of them was to leave for South Africa after catching an evening flight to Delhi.
Both were attached to the Tansi Project.
The two were allowed to leave for Nagpur after a thorough medical examination. A senior police officer said that the food samples found were examined at a veterinary clinic and they turned out to be pork and chicken.
“If they had any such information, they should have alerted the police rather than taking the law into their own hands,” Chhindwara Superintendent of Police R K Sihore said, worried about the fallout of the incident.
Bajrang Dal’s founder member in Chhindwara and regional convener of the campaign, Raju Charnagar, admitted that the tip-off was wrong. He blamed it on elements who were at the receiving end of the campaign, which had saved hundreds of cows from being slaughtered.
“We are ashamed of what we did, but we were misled. We will publicly apologise to the foreigners if required,” Charnagar said adding, “but our campaign will continue.” He, however, blamed the villagers for the theft of phones, wallets and a laptop. “The police should also inquire who were behind the theft,” he said.
The Dal alleged that thousands of cows are transported to slaughterhouses in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra via the Chhindwara border. Sources in Parasia and Chandameta police stations admitted that the Dal activists were active in the area and often liased with the police to rescue cows.
“Usually they surround the vehicle and do not allow the people inside to leave until the police arrives,” a constable said. In December, they reportedly succeeded in catching four minority community members, including two women, with beef and handed them over to the police.
The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh has decided to award stringent punishment for cow slaughter as the present legislation has failed to be an effective deterrent. The Bill to this effect is likely to come up in the February session of the Assembly.
Recently, a series of bandhs had been organised by Hindu organisations to protest the recovery of a large number of carcasses near Mandsaur town.
January 31, 2007)
Bajrang Dal activists held for robbing foreigners
Milind Ghatwai
Madhya pradesh: Were tipped off S Africans were carrying beef, turned out to be pork, chicken
BHOPAL, JANUARY 30: Acting on a wrong tip-off, Bajrang Dal activists on Monday beat up two South Africans, accusing them of carrying beef, near Bhajipani village in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh. The activists also damaged the vehicle in which the foreigners were travelling to Nagpur and snatched their mobile phones and wallets.
According to reports, the foreigners — Gordon (44) and Jacob (52), both working with Western Coalfields Limited — were carrying broiler chicken and pork when a group of around 15 Bajrang Dal activists stopped them. The activists accused them of carrying beef and beat them up.
Chhindwara Superintendent of Police R K Sihore told The Indian Express that a case of dacoity has been registered against the Bajrang Dal activists. Sihore also said that four of the activists have already been arrested and the others would be taken into custody soon.
The victims were on their way to Nagpur — the headquarters of WCL — since one of them was to leave for South Africa after catching an evening flight to Delhi.
Both were attached to the Tansi Project.
The two were allowed to leave for Nagpur after a thorough medical examination. A senior police officer said that the food samples found were examined at a veterinary clinic and they turned out to be pork and chicken.
“If they had any such information, they should have alerted the police rather than taking the law into their own hands,” Chhindwara Superintendent of Police R K Sihore said, worried about the fallout of the incident.
Bajrang Dal’s founder member in Chhindwara and regional convener of the campaign, Raju Charnagar, admitted that the tip-off was wrong. He blamed it on elements who were at the receiving end of the campaign, which had saved hundreds of cows from being slaughtered.
“We are ashamed of what we did, but we were misled. We will publicly apologise to the foreigners if required,” Charnagar said adding, “but our campaign will continue.” He, however, blamed the villagers for the theft of phones, wallets and a laptop. “The police should also inquire who were behind the theft,” he said.
The Dal alleged that thousands of cows are transported to slaughterhouses in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra via the Chhindwara border. Sources in Parasia and Chandameta police stations admitted that the Dal activists were active in the area and often liased with the police to rescue cows.
“Usually they surround the vehicle and do not allow the people inside to leave until the police arrives,” a constable said. In December, they reportedly succeeded in catching four minority community members, including two women, with beef and handed them over to the police.
The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh has decided to award stringent punishment for cow slaughter as the present legislation has failed to be an effective deterrent. The Bill to this effect is likely to come up in the February session of the Assembly.
Recently, a series of bandhs had been organised by Hindu organisations to protest the recovery of a large number of carcasses near Mandsaur town.
January 03, 2007
Rewriting Rajasthan's history important: RSS
Rediff.com
Rewriting Rajasthan's history important: RSS
January 03, 2007 18:34 IST
Brushing aside Congress' apprehension of Hindutva agenda in the academic curriculum, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Wednesday hailed Rajasthan's Bharatiya Janata Party government for its move to rewrite the state's history.
It said that the move would delete 'unscrupulous facts' mentioned in textbooks against heroes and leaders.
"History books need improvement and correction as there are a number of citiations where Maharana Pratap, Guru Govind Singh and ex-rulers are being misquoted or defamed in the school and college curriculum," RSS' kshetriya seva pramukh Moolchand Soni told reporters.
RSS has constituted a committee called the Itihas Sankalan Samiti in the state and at the central level and the Rajasthan government's steps towards a campaign on Apni Dharti, Apne Log (our land, our people) was in the right direction, he said.
The Congress alleged on Tuesday that the ruling BJP was trying to tamper with historical facts of the state in a bid to enforce its Hindutva agenda.
"The re-writing of history of Rajasthan's villages is irrelevant and unauthentic. We will not let the state became a testing laboratory for Hindutva agenda," state Congress chief B D Kalla said in a statement.
Rajasthan's Education Minister G S Tiwari announced on Sunday that his department would soon compile historical and cultural facts related to over 41,000 villages for new textbooks.
Rewriting Rajasthan's history important: RSS
January 03, 2007 18:34 IST
Brushing aside Congress' apprehension of Hindutva agenda in the academic curriculum, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Wednesday hailed Rajasthan's Bharatiya Janata Party government for its move to rewrite the state's history.
It said that the move would delete 'unscrupulous facts' mentioned in textbooks against heroes and leaders.
"History books need improvement and correction as there are a number of citiations where Maharana Pratap, Guru Govind Singh and ex-rulers are being misquoted or defamed in the school and college curriculum," RSS' kshetriya seva pramukh Moolchand Soni told reporters.
RSS has constituted a committee called the Itihas Sankalan Samiti in the state and at the central level and the Rajasthan government's steps towards a campaign on Apni Dharti, Apne Log (our land, our people) was in the right direction, he said.
The Congress alleged on Tuesday that the ruling BJP was trying to tamper with historical facts of the state in a bid to enforce its Hindutva agenda.
"The re-writing of history of Rajasthan's villages is irrelevant and unauthentic. We will not let the state became a testing laboratory for Hindutva agenda," state Congress chief B D Kalla said in a statement.
Rajasthan's Education Minister G S Tiwari announced on Sunday that his department would soon compile historical and cultural facts related to over 41,000 villages for new textbooks.
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