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'Donate Re 1 a day to stop conversions'
'Donate Re 1 a day to stop conversions'
Author: PTI
Publication: The Times of India
Date: January 6, 2004
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/408103.cms
The Shankaracharya of Gobardhan
Peeth, Puri, Swami Nischalananda Saraswati, has urged the Hindus to save
at least Re 1 every day and contribute it to a fund for development of
tribal areas to stop illegal conversion.
People are taking advantage of
the poverty and under-development of tribals to wean them away from the
Hindu religion, the Puri seer alleged while addressing the annual function
of Ganjam college at Ganjam, 30 km from here yesterday.
Expressing concern over conversion,
the Shankaracharya said it posed a threat to Hindu religion and ridiculed
the propaganda that tribals were not Hindus.
The Shankaracharya asserted that
Hinduism was the oldest religion in the world saying the time has come
for people professing the faith to protect it.
The Deputy Speaker of Orissa assembly
Ram Chandra Panda also addressed the meeting.
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