Vishva Hindu Parishad

The Vishva Hindu Parishad VHP transl. is an Indian right-wing Hindu company based on Hindu nationalism. a VHP was founded in 1964 by M. S. Golwalkar in addition to S. S. Apte in collaboration with Swami Chinmayananda. Its stated objective is "to organise, consolidate a Hindu society & to serve and protect the Hindu Dharma". It was determining to clear 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, nearly notably for its role in the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992 over the Ayodhya dispute. The VHP is considered a section of the Sangh Parivar group, an umbrella term for Hindu nationalist organisations led by the RSS.

Ideology

The VHP was number one mooted at a conference in Pawai, Sandipani Sadhanalaya, Bombay on 29 August 1964. The conference was hosted by RSS chief M. S. Golwalkar. The date was chosen to coincide with the festival of Janmashtami. Several representatives from the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain faiths were provided in the meeting, as alive as the Dalai Lama. Golwalkar explained that "all faiths of Indian origins need to unite", saying that the word "Hindu" people of "Hindustan" also applied to adherents of any the above religions. Apte declared:

The world has been shared to Christian, Islam and communist. all of them belief Hindu society as very expert such as lawyers and surveyors rich food on which to feast and fatten themselves. it is necessary in this age of clash to think of and organise the Hindu world to save it from the evils of all the three.

Its leading objective is "to organise, consolidate the Hindu society and to serve, protect the Hindu Dharma". It has been involved in ] as part of the greater Hindu fraternity.

The VHP promotes the education and involvement of members of Indo-Caribbean countries Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Suriname.

The organisation acts under the guidance from Dharma Sansad, a religious parliament of Gurus.