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Use of British Charities for Funding Hindutva
March 31, 2004 | Comments Off on Use of British Charities for Funding Hindutva
In early March, AWAAZ: South Asia Watch Limited (ASAW) presented a report on the funding of Sangh organizations by British charities. The 80-page report In Bad Faith? British Charity and Hindu Extremism documented the use of millions of British pounds, collected from the public allegedly for disaster relief after the Gujarat earthquake and Orissa cyclone, by Sangh organizations.
According to an article in Outlook India, the report asked the UK Charity Commission to “revoke the charitable status of Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh-UK (HSS-UK), VHP-UK and Kalyan Ashram Trust-UK (KAT-UK), all part of the Sangh parivar, and act against their trustees”:
ASAW’s charges are serious:
About a third of the money collected for earthquake rehabilitation was spent in setting up RSS schools.
The charity money went to Sangh outfits like the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram (allegedly involved in the Gujarat riots), Lok Kalyan Samiti, Border Jankalyan Samiti, Sewa Bharati and Orissa’s Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti (UBSS).
Sewa Bharati, on the vanguard of several anti-minority crusades, received over
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