New Delhi: The three-week long Sansad Sampark Abhiyan of Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) will continue until March 27. The Secretary General VHP, Bajrang Lal Bagra said in a press conference that under this special Campaign, already begun this Monday (March 9), we will meet all MPs of both Houses of Parliament and discuss three pressing issues of the country.
Although, this campaign is part of our annual plan during the Winter Session but, this year it is being organised during the Budget Session because the duration of the Winter Session was very short. This year we will place three specific issues before the country’s lawmakers.
Bagra said that there is a need for a comprehensive national deliberation on population imbalance. Many previous governments have worked on this issue in their own ways, but now there is a need to carefully examine its finer aspects and formulate an effective National Population Policy. This work should move forward with public participation, along with measures such as women’s empowerment, expansion of healthcare services, and policies ensuring regional and community population balance. We will discuss the issue before them.
He further said that Bharat is a nation rooted in Dharma, whose soul resides in its pilgrimage centres, and the vision of its development remains incomplete without the development of these sacred places. Pilgrimages make a significant contribution to the country’s economy. Therefore, our team will request all MPs to ensure the proper development of pilgrimage centres so that they become focal points of the country’s economy, culture and self-respect, and once again emerge as global centres promoting dharma, spirituality and human welfare. Temples should be freed from government control, Hindu money should be used for Hindu Cause, and an independent department should be created within the Ministry of Culture for the development of pilgrimage so that these centres can develop in a comprehensive manner.
As the third issue, we will urge MPs to ensure that the provisions of Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution are applied equally to all citizens of the country, so that all religions receive equal constitutional rights to religious education without discrimination. They will also highlight the need to define the term “minority”.
The VHP General Secretary said that the campaign will take place in three phases. In different phases, workers from different states of the country are reaching the national capital Delhi to meet MPs of their respective regions. The first phase will be from March 9 to March 13, the second from March 16 to March 20, and the concluding phase of the campaign will run from March 23 to March 27. We will meet all MPs irrespective of their party, ideology, sect or region and present our views openly before them, he added.
VHP Central Minister and All-India Special Contact Head Ambrish Singh was also present at the press conference.
