Hindutva group issues ultimatums to Christian-run schools engaged in ‘Conversion’ in Assam.

Protect Ahomiya Culture and tradition rooted in Sanatan Hindu Dharma.

Across Assam, Hindutva Group’s Posters Issue ‘Final Warnings’ to Christian Institutions engaged in ‘Conversion’ and ‘Anti-National’ activities. 

The posters, printed by the Sammilata Sanatan Samaj group in Assamese, have said, ‘This is the final warning to stop using the school as a religious institution…stop anti-Bharat and unconstitutional activities or else…’.

Sampada Kalita | HENB | Guwahati | March 5, 2024::  A lesser known Hindutva group known as Sanmilita Sanatan Samaj has been running a poster campaign in various parts of Guwahati and have been giving ultimatums to missionary run  schools. The posters particularly seen outside the  Don Bosco School and St Mary’s School in Guwahati, as well as Don Bosco High School Lichubari in Dibrugarh and Carmel School Jorhat.

According to The Hindu, these posters were mounted by the Sanmilita Sanatan Samaj organisation, now are across the walls of missionary-run educational institutions in Guwahati, Barpeta, Jorhat, and Sivasagar towns.

The group has demanded the removal of Christian symbols and idols and chapels from missionary school premises arguing that it was against the alleged transformation of educational institutions into religious institutes. The campaign came after a deadline set by the Kutumba Suraksha Parishad, which is reported as another Hindutva group, and thus called for the elimination of idols of Jesus Christ and Mother Mary from these missionary schools.

According to media source, Kutumba Suraksha Parishad president Satya Ranjan Borah told reporters: “I am delighted to hear that many people come forward for a poster campaign. The people of Assam realised this. Earlier a few people were protesting against it.”

The Parishad insisted that fathers and sisters associated with these institutions should change their manner of dressing and follow a ‘normal dress.’

Furthermore, posters of this campaign have come up not only in educational institutions but also in public spaces like Nehru Park and Dighalipukhuri in the city, as well as in Barpeta and Sivasagar. An excerpt from the poster states, “This is the final warning to stop using the school as a religious institution. Remove all religious symbols etc., from the school premises and stop such anti-Bharat and unconstitutional activities, or else.” The poaster also urged to adhere the National Education Policy as top priority.

As per The Wire, ‘On February 18, authorities at the well-known Carmel School in Jorhat approached the local police after spotting such a poster on its boundary wall.’

According to Citizen for Justice and Peace OCJP), “These recent poster campaigns have made the schools administration feel insecure and unsafe which has led to school principals have written to the local police requesting attention to the incidents and for police protection.”

When the anti-Hindu groups in The Wire or CJP are trying to give a communal colour to the recent campaign, the public and the guardians of the school students are taking this issue as a campaign for the Protection of Ahomiya Culture and tradition rooted in Sanatan Hindu Dharma.

“We are hopeful to restrict the Missionary schools working as the front offices for Christian conversion against the Ahomiya Culture and tradition,” an activist of the Sammilata Sanatan Samaj, expressed his views to HENB.

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__Inputs from the sources linked above.