The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has plans to include controversial
issues like ‘Dharm Parivartan’ and ‘Ghar Vapsi’ in its ‘Sant Sammelan’ and ‘Marg Darshak Mandal’ conferences to be held during parishad’s annual ‘Magh Mela’ in Allahabad, next month. The conferences, slated to be organised on the banks of the ‘Sangam’, would demand for law against conversion in the country. He conferences would be held on January 21 and 22 where almost all th saints and leaders associated with VHP and other Hindu organisations would participate, confirmed VHP spokes person Sharad Sharma.
Sharma said that the issues of conversion and ‘Ghar Vapsi’ would feature in the main agenda of the conferences besides early construction of grand Ram temple at Ayodhya and other issues related to Hindu religion and community would also be discussed. ‘’Demographic imbalance with increasing population of Muslims and Islamic terrorism,’’ would be among issues,” he said. The saints will discuss the issue and the VHP will follow their
decision next year, he said. Prominent among those who are expected to participate in this Sant Samelan and VHP’s Marg Darshak Mandal are : Badrikashram Shankaracharya Vasudevananda Saraswati, Swami Narendrananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of Kashi Sumeru Peeth, Mahant Nritya Gopal Das,the head of the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas Parishad VHP leaders along with chief patron Ashok Singhal, and other office-bearers of the organisation.
Sharma said that the sants will give discourse on the issues and the aim would be to convince the people to return to their parent religion. “We have never believed in anything being done forcibly. That is why we want a law against conversion,” VHP spokesman said. Sharma also informed that the Board of Trustee of the VHP is meeting at Hyderabad from December 26 to 29 where several decisions would be taken. “The Hyderabad meeting of the VHP will fix the agenda of the Allahabad conferences beside might take other decisions on Hindu issues,” he said.