Poverty is a Greenfield for missionaries who enter remote tribal regions and carry out large scale conversion in the pretext of providing services like healthcare and education. Areas ranging from Umargam of Gujarat to Jhabua of Madhya Pradesh and Jhalor of Rajasthan, where more than 80% of the population is tribal, have always been vulnerable to missionary activities from Europe and America. Poverty is a catalyst for religious conversions and has become equivalent to a lucrative business in the contemporary scenario. Hundreds of churches mushroomed in each tribal district. VHP national general secretary, Y Raghavulu, claimed that 8 lakh Hindus are converted into other religions each year. Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar once wrote to a Bangalore based tabloid saying that, "Converting myself into Islam or Christianity will shift my loyalty towards Mecca or the Vatican, so I would much rather convert into Buddhism." As he foresaw the result of converting into Semitic religions.
============================================== # OPINION : Saturday, October 31, 2020. 07 : 08. PM. 2285. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ##The Patel Saga is still alive with Statue of Unity: An Insight : 31-Oct-2020 : Gopal Goswami : Organiser : Media Report. =========================================================== "Do we need statues or schools, Hospitals! this much money could have been given to the welfare of the poor." We have heard a lot about the Statue of the Legend, the unifier of modern Bharat, The Iron man Sardar Patel. When Narendra Modi as Chief Minister of Gujarat has announced this project in 2010, It was widely criticised by the so-called elite literate, intellectuals and the opposition precisely. There were wage estimations. Controversy over its being made in China, though it was only the cavity part of bronze which was imported as China is the only manufacturer of it. Larsen & Toubro, our own Indian ...