"In 2002, a Foreign Office report found that the Indian branch of the organisation organised a pogrom which killed thousands of Muslims in Gujarat that year. The document, cited in a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, says: The aim of the perpetrators of the violence, the VHP and other Hindu extremist groups, was to purge Muslims from Hindu and other mixed localities in order to ghettoise them. Their systematic campaign of violence has all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing."
"As a proud Hindu, I am disgusted that London's annual Diwali celebration is organised by a range of organisations that bring the unacceptable politics of Hindutva, anti-Muslim hate, and casteism. For most people Diwali is thought of as a celebration of good over evil, of truth over falsehood, yet the Mayor of London apparently considers it appropriate to be working with the the likes of VHP UK."
"The VHP is a violent Hindu supremacist component of the Sangh Parivar, or Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) family of organisations. The Mayor of London must cut off all ties with these organisations. It requires only the most basic level of research to discover the horrors the VHP is affiliated with - it is an anti-Muslim pogrom group that played key roles in the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992, the Gujarat riots of 2002"
The Mayor of London rejected calls to cut ties with Vishwa Hindu Parishad UK, which is listed on the official organising committee for the City Hall-backed Diwali event in Trafalgar Square on October 12. A 2002 Foreign Office report found the Indian branch organised a pogrom that killed thousands in Gujarat and described the campaign as aiming to purge Muslims and ghettoise them, with hallmarks of ethnic cleansing. City Hall dismissed earlier concerns about VHP-UK’s involvement. Campaigners and Hindus for Human Rights UK condemned VHP-UK as linked to Hindutva, casteism, Babri Masjid demolition and the Gujarat riots.
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