A change of tactic: Check conversion to avoid re-conversion

In wake of this, it is for the first time that Delhi will host the ‘Vanwasi Raksha Parivaar Kumbh 2014’.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will be the chief guest at the event scheduled to be held at the Japanese Park Sunday.

Asked why Delhi, convenor Murali Lal Agarwala said, “We have contributors in Delhi. There are 20,000 families here who contribute Rs 2,500 per year. All have been invited to the programme.”

A senior RSS leader said it is important to reach marginalised villages before the Christian missionaries. “If we reach them and help government schemes reach their villages then these tribals will not convert to Christianity. The effort is to make them aware of their culture and prevent them from various ‘vyasans’”.

The introduction of the programme reads: “Under this scheme contribution of Rs 2,500 helps us adopt one tribal village and help protect the village from religious conversions, alcoholism, drug addiction, terrorism and prevents them from turning into Maoists.”