Videos of Hindus getting converted to Christianity have come to light from Rampur Bushahar town of Shimla in Himachal Pradesh. As per the reports, a HRTC bus carrying passengers was travelling from Shimla to Delhi and when stopped at the old bus stand, the passengers started talking about Christianity.
Soon, the local Hindu activists including members of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and other organisations reached the spot. Following their protest, the police reached the spot and started interrogating the passengers.
After strictly questioning the people, police found that many of the passengers had travelled from Nepal to India to attend a camp. This camp was organised in the gram panchayat Bahali.
A VHP activist, Pranesh shared the details about the case with the media. He said, a HRTC bus was travelling to Delhi from Shimla, while the bus stopped at the bus stand, some of the passengers started promoting Christianity. They had copies of bible and were preaching the gospel from the same. Following their protest, the police interrogated and checked the bags of the passengers, and they found a large number of Bibles and other religious texts.
VHP handed over a memorandum to the DSP demanding action in this case.
The Station House Officer, Rampur, Karamchand told the media that following the protest and complaint, a FIR has instituted and as many as 11 people have been arrested by the police. All of them have been booked under IPC sections 295 (destruction, damage or defilement of place of worship) and 341 (wrongful restraint).
It is pertinent to mention that people from Nepal and other states of the country reached Shimla to attend a 26 day religious camp.
Notably, a similar camp was recently organised in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur. The organisers lured Hindus and tribals in the name of free treatment and were offering them money against conversion.
On June 24, the Epifani School in Kanpur Nagar organised a medical camp, wherein oil and medicine were expected to be distributed among patients. However, the event turned out to be a religious gathering where prayers were recited amid chants of Haleluya.
In the event some oil was distributed among the people with envelopes, some had cash and some did not. Some of the event volunteers, all Christians took Hindus aside and told them about their religion.
Offering the money envelopes they said, “In the next event you will get so much money that you cannot even imagine, it can make you rich and healthy”.
In April 2023, Organiser reported a similar case of conversion through such event from Madhya Pradesh where a Dalit filed a case against organisers saying, “I will remain a Hindu and will not convert”
Ramesh a resident of Jhabua District of Madhya Pradesh in his complaint told the police that, he comes from Bhabor Jati. The villagers Sandhiya Bhabor, Badu Bhabor, Nathu Gundiya, Makna Sigadiya and Kanji Sikadiya all residents of Negadiya and Balwan village are forcing people to convert to Christianity.
On March 25, around 4:30 in the evening Ramesh with his friend Rajesh went to the house of Badu. At that time, Sandiya, Nathu, Makna and others were praying to Jesus. Badu asked them to come and sit in the prayer.
After the prayer, he told Ramesh to come to Christianity as after it he and his family will get free treatment and his children will be sent to good schools, he will not have to worry about the education fees at all.
After this, they sprinkled some water on them and put a cross locket tied in a thread around their neck. Later, they bring a book saying it was Bible and handed it over to Ramesh and Rajesh. Nathu also chanted some of the verses from the book and said, ‘You have become a Christian now’.
He asked them to follow Missionary customs and come to the prayers organised in the Church, every Sunday.
Ramesh was not feeling good about leaving Hinduism and becoming a Christian so coming out of Badu’s house he told Rajesh, “I will remain Hindu and will not become a Christian”. Badu somehow heard it and said, if they will not follow Christianity he will make sure Ramesh is thrown out of the village.
Notably, conversion activities through such events are rising day by day, the target is a vulnerable and weak person. The conversion mafia lures these innocent people either by money, job or by triks like curing the disease and so on.
In May 2023, Organiser compiled a list of tactics opted by the Missionary preachers to convert people. The latest to the list was spreading the message of Jesus in the train, we called it, ‘The Train Story’.
Notably, A video of the incident went viral on social media, where two Hindu women are confronting a missionary preacher who was busy grooming innocent Hindus to convert. In the viral video, the Hindu woman told the preacher, that she knows how missionary conversion activities are rampant in India. She added the preacher should worship their god at their home only, the train is not a place to tell others about god.
The preacher responds by saying, “We are preaching the message of God because we care for Hindus”.
The woman behind the camera tells, “Hindus have gone out of their mind, as they believe in frauds like you to give up their Sanatan Dharma. It is high time, we Hindus are already fighting for our existence, we will not let you run your propaganda in public places.”
She added, “Have you ever seen a Sanatani spreading his religion, forcing his religious beliefs on others like you are doing, Do not take benefit of our silence”.
“We have 108 Crore gods and goddesses in our Dharma, we don’t need any other deity to worship. You, people,
are running your propaganda in exchange for money. This is not allowed in the constitution, don’t brainwash innocent Hindus stop this,” the woman said.
In this story, we listed as many as seven tricks used by missionary preachers in India to lure innocent Hindus. Readers can go through the report here.
