NGO accuses 2 other groups of conversions, writes to MHA

A Hyderabad-based NGO, said to be ideologically closer to the RSS, has written to the Ministry of Home a ff airs(m ha) seeking cancellation of FCRA registration of two prominent NGOS — Caritas India based in Delhi and Rural Development Trust based in Anantpur, Andhra Pradesh — alleging they are involved in religious conversions.

Legal rights protection forum (LRPF), an NGO established in 2016, has been campaigning against various NGOS largely on the issue of religious conversions.

“Caritas India is raising funds from abroad through the FCRA channel in the name of various welfare activities by projecting the people of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities are the only poor in India to divide society into groups. The saidn go, through its various programs, is offering economic incentives to people of the selected sections of society that lead to socialdisharmony. these economic incentives are being utilized to motivate people to abandon their ancestral faith and accept Christianity as their new faith which is leading to social tensions within tribal groups and across communities,” LRPF said in its March 21 complaint to the MHA.

Then go has raised objections to why car it as india is focusing on Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh when UP and Bihar have more poor from SC/ST communities.

In its complaint against Rural Development Trust, LRPF said, “It has come to our knowledge that the Andhra Pradesh Government’s free housing project for poor and marginalized communities is being utilized by the Rural Development Trust for its Christian conversions.”

An RDT spokesperson said: "RDT Is a non-political, non-religious, nationally oriented organisation with over five decades of work in rural development in the states of Andhra and Telangana. The allegations made are absolutely baseless and untrue. We extend to you our invitation to visit and see for yourself the work that is carried out by RDT.”