The message was being forwarded on WhatsApp following a public meeting held earlier in the week in Udupi against conversions.
“Please pray for peace during the next ten days in Mangalore as there will be a huge riot set up by VHP and RSS on 29 September in the name of “fight against conversion by Christian missionaries. Many of the media channels are threatened to convey wrong messages,” reads a fear-mongering message being circulated on WhatsApp and social media. However, rubbishing the claims made in it, Dr PS Harsha, Commissioner of Police, Mangaluru, has stated that there is no need to panic. “This is all rumour mongering. There is nothing to worry about. Some people are unnecessarily spreading panic,” he said to TNM. The message was being forwarded on WhatsApp following a public meeting held earlier in the week in Udupi where members from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal spoke about recent instances of alleged forced religious conversions. At the meeting held on Tuesday, VHP divisional secretary Sharan Pumpwell claimed that two people from the city had been forcibly converting others and demanded their arrest. “We have heard that the forceful conversion of people is happening quite often in some prayer centres of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi. This is a systematic conspiracy and a probe should be held. All religious centres need to be checked. People should support in order to prevent such kind of religious conversion,” he reportedly said. Speaking at the meeting, Sharan also stated that they would approach the Centre and ask for an anti-conversion bill to be implemented and enforced. However, this has now been twisted into a so- called warning and is being forwarded in groups.
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