Citizens for Justice and Peace
Ram temple issue will be raised in 2015: VHP
24-Aug-2014
PTI | Jaipur | August 24, 2014 6:08 pm “VHP has saved over 10,000 girls after counselling in the past, and many of them got remarried with Hindu boys.” Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Sunday indicated going soft on the Ram temple issue for now, saying the “permanent temple” would take shape in Ayodhya after the…
Modi-led country all set to become Hindu rashtra: Sena
22-Aug-2014
Reiterating its support for RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement that India is a ‘Hindu rashtra’, the Shiv Sena claimed that Hindus had voted out fake secularists and Narendra Modi-led NDA’s victory showed that India is on its way to becoming a Hindu rashtra. “The victory of Hindutva is an indication of Hindustan becoming a Hindu…
VHP members booked for wielding swords at golden jubilee celebrations
17-Aug-2014
The Vadodara Police have booked members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad for brandishing swords and daggers at a rally to mark the 50 years of the saffron organization in the city. Members partaking in the rally passed through communally sensitive areas at at least two points in the city, wielding swords and holding banners with…
Goa CM: In Gulf, even Indian Muslims are called Hindus
12-Aug-2014
Aug 14 2014 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Panaji TIMES NEWS NETWORK Controversy over the usage of ‘Hindu’ or ‘Hindutva’ doesn’t seem to leave Goan shores. Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday said many times, some non-Indians use the word Hindu when referring to Indians. In the Gulf countries, even a Muslim from…
Cultural identity of all Indians is Hindutva: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat
11-Aug-2014
Cuttack, Aug 11, 2014, PTI: If inhabitants of England are English, Germany are Germans and USA are Americans then why all inhabitants of Hindustan are not known as Hindus, came a poser from RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. “The cultural identity of all Indians is Hindutva and the present inhabitants of the country are descendants of…
In west UP, RSS’ rakhi drive to fight `love jihad’
08-Aug-2014
Rajiv.Srivastava @timesgroup.com Lucknow: The Rashtriya Swamsevak Sangh will use the `rakhi’ bond to counter alleged forced conversions and `love jihad’ cases in western Uttar Pradesh. The Sangh will carry out a week-long awareness drive, starting August 10, in the region wherein its cadre will tie rakhis to Hindus and ask them to take a pledge…
Teaching Gita in schools not against Constitution: Sangh ideologue
06-Aug-2014
He said the work is not a mere religious scripture but a spiritual and philosophic classic. Backing Supreme Court Judge Justice A R Dave over his call to teach Gita in schools, a leading RSS ideologue on Wednesday said the work is not a mere religious scripture but a spiritual and philosophic classic and called…
Sangh sets up panel to push ‘saffronisation’ of education
27-Jul-2014
The Bharatiya Shiksha Niti Aayog will study the present education system and suggest corrective steps to make it Bharat-centric. G Sreedathan reports Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas, an organisation affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has set up Bharatiya Shiksha Niti Aayog (Indian Education Policy Commission), the first commission of its kind in the non-governmental sector,…
Man who got Wendy Doniger pulped is made ‘must reading’ in Gujarat schools
25-Jul-2014
To make students aware of Indian culture, Batra recommends his own three-language system to be followed in schools. # Don’t blow out candles on your birthday. It’s “western culture” and needs to be shunned. Instead, wear “swadeshi clothes” this day, do a havan, pray to the ishtadev, feed cows. # Drawing a map of India?…
Togadia rakes up temple again, says its on VHP agenda
22-Jul-2014
JAIPUR: The construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya is still on t he Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s (VHP) agenda, said the Parishad’s international working president Praveen Togadia, while assuring supporters that the same would be constructed soon. Togadia’s address came while he was in Jaipur to launch a socio-medical project. In his speech, he also…