It will carry out an extensive public contact programme to reach out to the people belonging to various castes with the message that "all Hindus are one".
Assam: A viral video on social media sites showed five to seven youth wearing saffron scarves, and claiming to be from the Bajrang Dal asking the Hindus to stay away from the Christmas celebrations.
Facebook’s safety team, flagged Bajrang Dal as a ‘dangerous organisation’ and urged the network to ban the group from its platform, previous reports claimed.
The police registered a case against unidentified persons after the incident at the government school at Samudan village, about 50kms from the district headquarters, came to light on Wednesday
Digvijaya Singh had also attacked the BJP on Saturday saying some office-bearers of the party and Bajrang Dal were caught spying for the Pakistan intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence
According to reports, the victims, who are all minors, had their clothes torn off and their bicycles were vandalized by the group when the children went to a ground to play cricket after concluding their afternoon namaaz.
In her suicide note, she wrote that a group of five harassed her and her mother by alleging that she goes out with a Muslim boy.
They also warned that the police department would be directly responsible for any untoward incidents during new year celebrations.
A group of Catholic carol singers were detained by police a few days ago in Madhya Pardesh's Satna after extreme right wing Hindu groups alleged religious conversions. A priest’s car was set on fire allegedly by the groups.
The group was at the police station till midnight.
Bajrang Dal to observe 'Shaurya Diwas' (Day of Valour) while Muslim organisations plan 'Yaum e Gham' (Day of sorrow) to mark the day.
The right-wing gathering also demanded the immediate withdrawal of a directive, which it claimed was issued by the Centre to states on cow vigilantism.
Later on the police intervened into the matter and took the girl and the boy to a police station.
Dreze was speaking at an event organised by a Hindi daily, where he commented on the functioning of saffron organisations like Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS).
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