Thursday, January 10, 2008

VHP delegation meets Advani over Kandhamal row

Bhubaneswar :(10/1) A VHP delegation from Orissa led by general secretary Gouri Prasad Rath late night on Wednesday met Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha LK Advani , Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Jaswant Singh and senior leader Sushma Swaraj seeking their intervention into the conspiracy being hatched by the Christian missionary in tribal dominated Kandhamal district. The VHP delegation urged the senior BJP leader Advani to take up the issue and raise it in Parliament. The delegation demanded before the BJP senior leadership that the Central Government should check foreign funding to the NGOs and Church establishments and frame laws to scrutinize the activities of these organizations and protect all the rights and facilities provided to the SCs & STs and to prevent others (non SC & ST) from taking away those facilities by fraud. Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram State general secretary Laxmi Kant Dash, VHP national general secretary Mohan Joshi and few affected people from Kandhamal were among those in the delegation. VHP State general secretary Rath said "We have apprised Advani, Singh and Swaraj about the whole incident and they have assured us all help," He further said that VHP would intensify agitation if the State Government failed to control conversion and stop foreign funding to Churches .

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