During celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, an extremist paramilitary formation, one of its leaders charged the United States and missionaries with deceitfully bringing Christianity into India.
Delhi (AsiaNews) - K S Sudarshan, leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh [RSS, paramilitary formation of fundamentalist nationalist Hindus, ed.], yesterday accused American Intelligence of seeking to convert India to Christianity with the help of non-governmental organizations.
The leader said: "The CIA [Central Intelligence Agency, ed.] wants to have one Christian church in every post office area. To attain this end, the American President Bush allocated 20 billion dollars."
Sudarshan made these charges during celebrations marking 100 years since the setting up of the RSS that were held in Madurai.
The leader said: "So NGOs started to build schools, hospitals and public infrastructure only to veer the rural people away from their Hindu moorings." He added: "Missionaries are also involved in this plan, because they mislead tribals when they say we invaded their land."
Finally, Sudarshan hit out at Indian Maoists who "just as they did in Nepal, resort to terrorism and attack government offices to demoralize government officials and bring areas under their control."