VHP foundation day at 1 lakh places
Vishwa Hindu Parishad
(VHP) will adjust to regional cultures while cutting across caste and linguistic lines within the Hindu group to organise the nine-day programmes marking its 61st foundation day celebrations beginning Aug 16.
VHP national spokesperson Vinod Bansal said that the idea behind the event is to unify the Hindu community across the country on cultural parameters while adhering to its core Hindutva narrative. He said that the organisation plans to organise events in at least 1 lakh places across the country.
This will include religious sermons, satsang, prabhat pheris, and shobha yatras. These events will be channelled by around 90,000 samitis which have been formed at the hyper-local level.
"We would thus be present not only in major cities but will also be penetrating deep into villages," Bansal said.
In UP alone, the VHP plans to organise programmes in at least 8,000 locations, including the Hindutva nerve centres like Ayodhya, Kashi (Varanasi), and Mathura. "The programmes will be organised keeping in mind local cultures and expectations of the people," Bansal told TOI. VHP's grand foundation day celebration coincides with RSS wider centenary celebrations.
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Besides temples, the VHP will reach out to Buddhist maths, Jain temples, and gurdwaras.
Dalit communities like Ravidasia and Valmiki too are expected to be involved by the right-wing group.
The campaign is seen as a blend of soft cultural and Hindutva messaging aimed at broadening its social base. Experts said the right-wing group may well be attempting cultural assimilation across caste, language and regional identities, helping it position as an inclusive yet ideologically firm outfit which presents Hindutva as not just a political doctrine but as a unifying cultural force.
Analysts said that VHP's aim to organise programmes in 1 lakh locations nationwide — 8,000 in UP alone — signalled a mass mobilisation drive on a scale reminiscent of earlier campaigns like the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. This grassroots penetration could be used to reinforce the VHP-BJP ideological synergy at the local level, gauge mood, and mobilise cadres for future political contests and pre-empt opposition narratives, especially those rooted in caste identity politics.
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