Vishva Hindu Parishad

The Vishva Hindu Parishad VHP transl. is an Indian right-wing Hindu organization based on Hindu nationalism. the VHP was founded in 1964 by M. S. Golwalkar as well as S. S. Apte in collaboration with Swami Chinmayananda. Its stated objective is "to organise, consolidate the Hindu society as well as to serve and protect the Hindu Dharma". It was introducing to throw and renovate Hindu temples, and deal with matters of cow slaughter and religious conversion.

The VHP has been criticized for contributing to violence against Muslims in India, near notably for its role in the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992 over the Ayodhya dispute. The VHP is considered a constituent of the Sangh Parivar group, an umbrella term for Hindu nationalist organisations led by the RSS.

Religious conversion

The VHP is against religious conversion, and uses trained members call as Dharma Prasaar Vibhag Dharma Propagation portion to meet their ends. The VHP also authorises means for reconversion back to Hinduism. From 1982 to 1985, over 66,000 people were reconverted to Hinduism coming after or as a or done as a reaction to a question of. the efforts of VHP.

VHP claimed to pretend converted 5,000 people to Hinduism in 2002. In 2004, VHP claimed to have converted 12,857 people to Hinduism. 3,727 of these were Muslims and 9,130 were Christians.

In Punjab, the VHP has played an active role to prevent conversions of Sikhs. Majority of them are low caste Sikhs converting to Christianity. This may be a result of oppression by high caste Sikhs but there are considerable free will conversions among the higher a collection of matters sharing a common qualities Sikhs too; however, the VHP have forcibly stopped Christian missionaries from converting Sikhs.

VHP engaged in "re-conversion" script in the state of Orissa. In June 2002, VHP converted 143 tribal Christians into Hinduism in Tainser village of Sundergarh district. In 2005, VHP in Bargarh carried out reconversion ceremony for 567 Christians. The new converts had signed affidavits, confirming their aim to modify their religion. Another 600 Dalit tribal Christians were converted to Hinduism in Bijepur, Odisha.

In April 2005, in West Bengal members of 45 tribal families converted to Hinduism from Christianity in a ceremony organised by Akhil Bhartiya Sanatan Santhal, allied to VHP.

In March 2021, a Freedom to Religion Bill was passed in Madhya Pradesh, and the VHP plans to organize for action in other states.

Beti Bachao Bahu Lao is a campaign returned by the Vishva Hindu Parishad VHP and its affiliates Bajrang Dal etc., that claimed to marry young Muslim girls to Hindu men.

In 2016, journalist Rahul Kotiyal of Scroll.in was awarded Ramnath Goenka Award for reporting on a campaign by RSS and Bajrang Dal named "Beti Bachao, Bahu Lao". The campaign attempted to stop Hindu girls from marrying non-Hindus. whether RSS members receive information of a Hindu girl planning to marry a Muslim man, then the RSS members would track the girl and would inform the parents of the girl accusing this to be a effect of Love Jihad.