With the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), set to complete 60 years soon, the organisation has embarked on a massive membership enrolment drive and also is aggressively striving to ensure anti-conversion laws at national level, VHP general secretary Milind Parande, said on Tuesday.
Already, the VHP had succeeded in ensuring anti-conversion laws in few states like Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Karnataka. Tamil Nadu government too should enact similar laws at state level, he said.
“It is our wish that similar law be passed in Tamil Nadu where there is a big danger of Christian conversion activity which is perfectly illegal. And that is why we will be taking up this issue,” Parande told reporters here.
“The VHP will be completing 60 years in two years. We are taking an expansion drive and creating awareness in the society on some of the challenges being faced by the Hindus like love jihad, cow slaughter, religious conversions, and decreasing Hindu population in certain areas,” he said.
The Hindu society should act on the challenges.
“That is why we will be contacting the society for this. VHP runs 5,700 service projects in health, education, women empowerment and skill development and it is our wish that the service projects are started in every district in the country within the next 2 years,” he said.
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