Udupi, Dec 26: Finally, the controversial œghar wapsi campaign of Sangh Parivar, is sent to reach coastal Karnataka, with right wing groups planning to convert Christians to Hinduism.
If sources are to be believed Pejawar Mutt seer Vishweshateertha Swamiji, who was a key architect of Ayodhya's Ram Janmabhoomi movement, has already given green signal to hold a massive œhomecoming event target families in Udupi district that have converted from Hinduism in the past.
Vishweshateertha Swamiji, a key architect of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, has reportedly shown green signal to hold reconversion event in Udupi
Preparations are in full swing in the district to convert as many as 110 families who have adopted Christianity. However, the entire programme is being covertly organised owing to the controversy surrounding it.
According to G Vasudeva Bhatta, convener of the Udupi city unit of the Dharma Jagran Vedike, which will undertake the conversion drive, the State unit had decided to build its organization from the village-level. The vedike has three objectives. They are prevention of conversion of Hindus to other faiths, reconversion, and prevention of cow slaughter.
A Sangh Parivar activist in Udupi said on condition of anonymity that their leaders have already identified several Brahmin, Billava, Koraga and Idiga families, who had converted to Christianity over the past few decades. Some of their relatives are still retaining their Hindu identity. œWe are using their clout to prevail upon the families to return to the Hindu fold," he said.
The conversion campaign is likely to be launched in the second half of January in Udupi district. Later it may be extended to Dakshina Kannada district also, sources said.
Prior to that, a crucial meeting of the Sangh Parivar leaders is expected to be held in Bengaluru, wherein Hindu leaders and pontiffs of influential mutts would take part.
The developments are ringing alarm bells in the district administration. This is so as the police have categorized Udupi as a "hypersensitive" district under "communal unrest".
Incidents of moral policing were rampant in Udupi district when the BJP was in power in Karnataka with churches being targeted for opposing conversion between 2008 and 2009.
Udupi was the first district where the BJP had grabbed power in the panchayats. A police officer said: "There is no specific information as of now on this reconversion. Nevertheless, we are monitoring the developments in Udupi district to prevent any untoward incident."
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