Vishwa Hindu Parishad draws action plan to free temples from govt control

The representatives of Hindu society will meet the Chief Ministers of the states between September 7-21 and submit a memorandum in this regard, the VHP said.

Mumbai: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has drawn a comprehensive action plan to liberate temples from government control and unite against forces that divide the Hindu society.

At the two-day meeting of VHP’s Central Governing Council at Jalgaon over the weekend, resolutions were passed for this.

VHP International President Alok Kumar presided over the meeting.

“The Hindu society has resolved that now temples will not remain in government possession. The society will now free them,” Kumar said.

According to him, a comprehensive action plan has also been prepared in the meeting for the liberation of temples from government control.

Under this, representatives of Hindu society will meet the Chief Ministers of the states between 7-21 September, 2025 and submit a memorandum in this regard. “Support for this will be garnered by organizing a meeting of enlightened people in every metropolis. In the second phase, during the sessions of all the major Legislative Assemblies of the country, extensive contact will be made with the MLAs, so that they can create proper pressure on their state governments for this and free the temples,” he said.

Another resolution was passed in the meeting against the divisive mentality of separating various components of Hindu society on the basis of caste, language, province, region and gender.

“The karyakartas, revered saints and socio-cultural organizations, along with the entire Hindu society, were called upon to identify these forces that divide the society and if we remove the adventitious discriminations in our society and remain united, then no one will be able to break us or erase us,” said Kumar, adding that the resolution calls upon the Hindu society to 'identify the divisive forces and uproot its own adventitious discriminations. It also called upon the governments to 'include moral education in the curriculum'.