The Hindu : VHP plans campaign on `Hindu agenda'

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Saturday, Mar 06, 2004

Karnataka

Karnataka - Udupi

VHP plans campaign on `Hindu agenda'

By Our Staff Correspondent

UDUPI, MARCH 5. The regional organising secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Keshava Hegde, said on Thursday that the VHP would launch a campaign to make voters aware of the "Hindu agenda" and urge them to vote for it.

He told presspersons here that the interests of the country coincided with the interests of the majority community. The agenda formulated by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad wanted the Government to approve the building of a Ram temple in Ayodhya.

He said the Government should pass laws to protect the cow.

It should abolish Article 370, which, he claimed, was fanning terrorism and separatist tendencies in Kashmir. It should stop religious conversions.

He said the agenda proposed that measures should be taken to clean the Ganga and other rivers. Personal laws should be replaced with a common civil code. "Jehadi" terrorism should be rooted out.

Mr. Hegde said temples and maths should be made autonomous. Illegal immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh should be evicted. The education system should be overhauled to teach Hindu values. The Government should take steps to solve the problems faced by Hindus living in other countries.

The "Datta Peetha" should be "liberated" and it should become a spiritual centre for the Hindus. To make the workers of the VHP and Bajrang Dal aware of the agenda, a district-level conference would be held here on March 28, Mr. Hegde said.

The president of the district unit of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Raghavendra Acharya, said the voters' awareness programme in the district would be held from March 28 to April 20.

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