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Dangs swami holds Hindu sammelan to check conversions
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The Asian Age
April 22, 1999
Title: Dangs swami holds Hindu sammelan to check conversions
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Publication: The Asian Age
Date: April 22, 1999
Swamy Asimanand from the Dangs said Hindutva is linked to Patriotism
and religious conversion of adivasis was dividing the society. He was
speaking during a Hindu Sammelan in Chopda where adivasis from Madhya
Pradesh and other places had converged.
The Hindu Sammelan has decided to sea up a Dharma Raksha Samiti in
every village to counter propaganda by Christian missionaries and save
the Hindu religion, said sources in Nashik. The Sammelan would oppose
further conversions, he said.
Swamy Asimanand said: The adivasis are being misguided by people who
are not Hindus. The Hindu religion does not have any fixed parameters
of upasna. The adivasis are pure Hindus. According to the Aryans, All
people residing on the banks of the Sindhu are Hindus."
He claimed that the Christian missionaries were taking advantage of
the innocence and illiteracy of the adivasis and converting them to
Christianity.
"We want to reconvert all Christian adivasis to the Hindu religion,"
he asserted. He said that during the reconversion process, the
adivasis were not asked to change their way of life. The Sammelan
reconverted 15,000 adivasis in Dang district of Gujarat recently, he
claimed.
Speaking on the occasion, Sant Panditji said: "There were 20 lakh
Christians in India during the British rule. Today their population is
3.5 crore." He alleged that the politicians are responsible for this.
"We respect Prabhu, Yeshu but the missionaries are playing a cloak and
dagger game," the swami said.
"Hindus should stop offering donations to temples and instead offer
the amount to the Sammelan to help poor Adivasis," he added. The
Sammelan passed two major resolutions - it demanded an inquiry into
foreign donations to Christian missionaries and into the number of
conversions.
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