Team Clarion
NEW DELHI — Right-wing organisation Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) distributed trishuls (tridents) among 1,100 Bajrang Dal workers at an event in Beawar city of Rajasthan on Wednesday.
The event was organised to celebrate the completion of 60 years of the establishment of the VHP.
The trishul initiation event was addressed by VHP’s national spokesperson Vijay Shankar Tiwari. He said the VHP was protecting Hindutva through its various programs and exhorted Bajrang Dal workers to sacrifice their lives for Hindutva as and when required.
VHP’s district president Suresh Vaishnav said that 1,100 Bajrang Dal workers took the trishul initiation with great enthusiasm and zeal and they all took a pledge to protect the religion.
This is not the first time that trishuls have been distributed among Hindu youth in the state. At an event in Lohwat district of Rajasthan last year, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pracharak Ishwar Lal distributed trishuls.
In his usual anti-Muslim rant, he said 30,000 temples in India were destroyed and mosques were built on them. “What is the number? 30,000. Do you want to convert them back to temples or not? We made the Ram temple, but still, 30,000 temples remain. We have to convert them into temples. We have to take back our lands” he said.
In December 2022, a similar event was organised where trishuls were distributed and hate speech against Muslims was made. Around 500-700 people attended the event. Similar trishul distribution events were reportedly held at Balesar, Rampura, Osiyan, Dechu in the state.
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