New Delhi: The VHP on Monday demanded that the central government enact a law in Parliament’s Winter Session for constructing a Ram temple at Ayodhya. “The Supreme Court has once again adjourned the hearing of the Ram Janmabhoomi appeals to the year 2019. This fortifies our stand that a solution[Read More…]
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BJP dumped Ram temple issue after getting power: Togadia
Lucknow, Sep 14 (IANS) Former Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) President Praveen Togadia on Friday accused the BJP of coming to power by promising a Ram temple at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh but dumping the issue thereafter. Addressing a rally at the Janakpuri ground in Akbarpur, he said: “They always said that[Read More…]
Odisha: Hindutva’s gateway to the East
In the Panchayat elections held in 2017 in Odisha, the BJP has improved it’s tally by a whopping 850 per cent as compared with the 2012 elections. With a failing Congress, the Hindutva party hopes to unseat the four term chief minister Naveen Patnaik and do a Tripura in the assembly elections to[Read More…]
The bigotry of Indians and social media
A tweet by a man, Abhishek Mishra went viral on Twitter for all the wrong reasons. He claimed to have cancelled an Ola cab booking because the driver was a Muslim. In his tweet, he announced that he doesn’t want to give money to “Jihadi people”. As people raged against[Read More…]
Kolkata: 78 Bajrang Dal, VHP workers held for protesting at newspaper office
In West Bengal, seventy-eight VHP and Bajrang Dal workers were arrested on Thursday. They were booked while they were demonstrating near the office of a vernacular newspaper in Kolkata against the alleged derogatory depiction of a Hindu Goddess in one of its magazines. A few hundred workers of VHP and Bajrang[Read More…]
Arms training being given to Bajrang Dal, VHP volunteers in Assam: Congress
The Congress has alleged that arms training is being given to Bajrang Dal and VHP volunteers in Assam on Friday. It also demanded action against those “practising this without a valid licence”. Assam Pradesh Congress Committee chief, Ripun Bora said that as part of their organisational work in the state,[Read More…]
Hindu outfit to fight cow smuggling, love jihad; to recruit 5,000 ‘religious soldiers’
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) will recruit 5,000 ‘religious soldiers’ in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh district who will control cow smuggling and deal with love jihad. They will be selected from among trained Bajrang Dal activists. The enrollment drive will be launched in September. This decision was taken at a VHP[Read More…]
Kashmir must be handed over to Army, says Pravin Togadia
Pravin Togadia, the international working president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) was in Kashmir after the Amarnath attack. While addressing the meeting of state-level VHP activists on Sunday, he said, “Kashmir should be handed over to the Army for giving a befitting reply to stone pelters and bank robbers. Once that[Read More…]
Minister justifies Muslim man’s murder in Alwar
Rajasthan: Gaurakshaks assaulted five men, one dead
A 55-year-old man succumbed to his injuries on Monday night after he was allegedly attacked by a group of gaurakshaks for transporting cows in Rajasthan’s Alwar on Saturday evening, The Indian Express reported. Rajasthan Police said the deceased, Pehlu Khan, and four others were attacked even as they produced documents[Read More…]
Enact law to build Ram temple: Togadia to Centre
Decision on Ram Temple within a week: Togadia
VHP leader in burqa caught molesting women at Majlis in Allahabad
A Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader on Saturday night was thrashed and handed over to police after he was allegedly caught molesting women at a Muharram Majlis while wearing a burqa (veil). Police have registered a case against VHP district secretary Abhishek Yadav, who is the husband of BJP zila[Read More…]
Snake bites back: What the killing of BJP worker by VHP, Bajrang Dal cow vigilantes tells us?
Fanaticism at its peak gets alienated from the core ideology it originated and becomes volatile, violent and uncontrollable. It loses the sense of differentiating between friends and foe. The recent incident of the killing of a BJP worker in Karnataka by VHP and Bajarang Dal cow vigilantes is a reminder[Read More…]