![]() (2/2) #adivasi /OmzCkeeP9vĪ resident of the region, Sajan Marandi (name changed) told Outlook that such conversions are an annual event in the area. The men and women were first made to walk on the burning charcoal during Jheel Pooja in Sindri village, Barhet block, following which their feet were washed as they were accepted into Sanatana upon "returning home" (ghar wapsi) at Sheetal Baba’s residential dhaam. “No Hindu would do something of this sort, this kind of work,” he says, adding that such false and baseless narratives are often planted for one or the other reason. Bansal argues that it is not believable since this is not how the Sangh Parivar affiliated organizations, which he admits there is a plethora of, operate and conduct ghar wapsi. When enquired about this episode by Outlook, where Adivasi Christians had to walk on burning coal for purification, the national spokesperson for VHP, Vinod Bansal refused to believe any such incident. The men and women were first made to walk on the burning charcoal during Jheel Pooja in Sindri village, Barhet block, following which their feet were washed as they were accepted into Sanatana upon "returning home" (ghar wapsi) at Sheetal Baba’s residential dhaam. The programme was organised by the district president of Giri Vanvasi Kalyan Parishad, Sheetal Baba. In Jharkhand’s Sahibganj district, about 70 Christian families, including over 40 men and 60 women, walked on burning coal to purify themselves and be accepted into Sanatana. Purifying The Christians On Burning CoalĮarlier in March this year, over 100 Adivasis allegedly converted to Sanatana from Christianity during a conversion programme, dubbed Ghar Wapsi by the right-wing bandwagon of RSS-VHP, according to sources. While religious conversions to Christianity and Islam have been much debated in India, attacks on minorities, instances of conversions to Sanatana Dharma or Ghar Wapsi in recent years have been frequent too.
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