Stay off ‘convent’ schools, Hindu outfit urges parents

The National Hindu Movement (NHM), an umbrella organisation for Hindu rightwing groups, held demonstrations in Ponda in Central Goa on Sunday and urged the Hindu parents not to deprive their children of Hindu culture by admitting them in convent schools.

It further demanded that the word ‘secular’ should be deleted from the Constitution and called for an end to “appeasing the minorities.”

Hindu Janajagruti spokesperson Samiti Manoj Solanki said girls were not allowed to wear bangles, apply

kumkum on the forehead, wear Indian dress, etc. in convent schools.

Unanimous demands like the Central Government should conserve ancient temples and forts by stopping their ruin, seeking legal action against Dnyanprakash Swami of Uraling math in Karnataka for burning Bhagavad Gita and Prof. K.S. Bhagvan for insulting the Gita, were made by the Hindu organisations during the demonstration. Recently Lata Dhavlikar, wife of Cabinet Minister Pandurang Dhavlikar, had sparked row by appealing parents to not send their children to convent schools.