Alleging ‘compelled’ conversion, Hindu organisations beat up Santa Claus in Gujarat
3 min readExpress News Service
AHMEDABAD: Ahead of the New Year celebrations, individuals dressed as Santa Claus was allegedly overwhelmed up by a Hindu organisation in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on Friday. Videos of the assault went viral on social media.
Santa Claus who had been attacked
On Friday evening, Bajrang Dal activists reached the Kankaria zoo entry gate the place Kankaria Carnival 2022 was organised by the federal government. They alleged that the individuals dressed up as Santa Claus had been into conversion exercise by giving candies and non secular books to the guests. They additionally claimed that they obtained complaints about the identical.
Speaking to media individuals, North Gujarat Bajrang Dal president Javalit Mehta mentioned, “When we went there to protest against the people who were doing religious conversion activity, there was a clash with some of them.”
The video of members of the Hindu supremacist organisation attacking and beating the people gown up as Santa Claus went viral on social media. The members had been seen threatening the Santa Clauses to “go back” to their church buildings to unfold the phrase about their faith.
Vishwa Hindu Parishad spokesperson Hitendrasinh Rajput mentioned, “for the past four days of the Kankaria Carnival, missionaries have been promoting Christianity by selling books dressed as Santa Claus near the entry of the zoo and promoting conversion activities by explaining about Jesus and Christianity. On being informed about the matter, 20 activists led by North Gujarat president of Bajrang Dal Javalit Mehta stopped the conversion activity in the government program at around 9 pm on Friday.”
No police criticism has been registered in regards to the incident to date.
The Kankaria Carnival 2022 was inaugurated by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on twenty fifth December, noticed as Good Governance Day, on the delivery anniversary of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The seven-day occasion is being organised after a niche of two years. The CM additionally nearly inaugurated Panch Mahotsav at Pavagadh in Panchmahals district.
AHMEDABAD: Ahead of the New Year celebrations, individuals dressed as Santa Claus was allegedly overwhelmed up by a Hindu organisation in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on Friday. Videos of the assault went viral on social media.
Santa Claus who had been attackedOn Friday evening, Bajrang Dal activists reached the Kankaria zoo entry gate the place Kankaria Carnival 2022 was organised by the federal government. They alleged that the individuals dressed up as Santa Claus had been into conversion exercise by giving candies and non secular books to the guests. They additionally claimed that they obtained complaints about the identical.
Speaking to media individuals, North Gujarat Bajrang Dal president Javalit Mehta mentioned, “When we went there to protest against the people who were doing religious conversion activity, there was a clash with some of them.”
The video of members of the Hindu supremacist organisation attacking and beating the people gown up as Santa Claus went viral on social media. The members had been seen threatening the Santa Clauses to “go back” to their church buildings to unfold the phrase about their faith.
Vishwa Hindu Parishad spokesperson Hitendrasinh Rajput mentioned, “for the past four days of the Kankaria Carnival, missionaries have been promoting Christianity by selling books dressed as Santa Claus near the entry of the zoo and promoting conversion activities by explaining about Jesus and Christianity. On being informed about the matter, 20 activists led by North Gujarat president of Bajrang Dal Javalit Mehta stopped the conversion activity in the government program at around 9 pm on Friday.”
No police criticism has been registered in regards to the incident to date.
The Kankaria Carnival 2022 was inaugurated by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on twenty fifth December, noticed as Good Governance Day, on the delivery anniversary of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The seven-day occasion is being organised after a niche of two years. The CM additionally nearly inaugurated Panch Mahotsav at Pavagadh in Panchmahals district.
