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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Prof Rajender Singh will launch
a 15-day door to door fund collection drive here on Thursday to
finance Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram to step up its programmes in North
Eastern states in order to check the activities of foreign
Christian missionaries. A target of Rs 1 crore has been fixed.
Similar drives will be conducted all over the country to help
finance the activities of Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, working for the
welfare of tribals in different states, to garner around RS 20
crores, announced Satyanarayan Bansal, Delhi Prant Sanghchalak.
Addressing a press conference, Bansal outlined the social
activities of the VKA, which he said was fighting against foreign
Christian missionaries that were converting Hindus.
Disclosing that Arunachal Pradesh had become the latest target of
foreign missionaries, Bansal alleged that the missionaries were
also responsible for growth of secessionist tendencies in the
seven sisters region.
"Foreign missionaries are carrying on religious conversions with
funds from American and European countries. Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram
is planning to put a break on expansion on foreign missionaries'
efforts by rapidly increasing its service projects, that include
schools, in North Eastern states, and particularly in Arunchal
Pradesh," Bansal said.
He asserted that in six to seven years time, this menace could be
checked completely. But since all these activities need finance
and the RSS thus decided to opt for the fund collection drive.
The church, he alleged, was primarily responsible for turning
Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya as Christian majority states
after Independence. "The church and their agents are employing
unscrupulous means to carry on their nefarious activities
including conversion of the poor and illiterate tribals through
deceit. The turmoil in the North Eastern states, rise in
militancy, increasing social strife, reports of secessionist
activities can all be traced to the church and its agents," the
chief of RSS Delhi unit alleged.
VKA, he said, was active in 30,000 villages populated by tribals
across the country and was poised to step up its service projects
in the North Eastern states. The entire country should realise
the danger of church activities in Arunachal Pradesh, Bansal said
appealling to the people to donate generously to the Patriotic
cause.
Donations would be acceptable in denominations of Rs 10, 50, 100
and 500, for which proper receipts would be furnished by the RSS
volunteers.
Bansal expressed shock as to how the church was allowed to carry
on its activities in Arunachal Pradesh, especially when religious
conversions was banned under law. It is the only state to have
such a legislation.
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