Campus Hindu Organization Conclusively Linked to the Sangh Parivar

Campaign to Stop Funding Hate
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Campus Hindu Organization Conclusively Linked to the Sangh Parivar
in North America and India

"Desi-American Students Deceived by the Hindu Student Council"
says New Report

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New York , Friday, April 13, 2007: The Campaign to Stop Funding
Hate (CSFH) will release a new report, Lying Religiously: The
Hindu Students Council and the Politics of Deception, on Sunday,
April 15, 2007. The report brings together evidence from multiple
sources to demonstrate a web of connections between the Hindu Students
Council (HSC) and the violent, hindu ultra-right Sangh Parivar,
and exposes the deliberate efforts of the HSC leadership to
conceal its links with the Sangh Parivar in order to deceive Hindu-
American college students. The report provides the first
comprehensive documentation of the origins, methods and practices
of the HSC.
Similar to " The Foreign Exchange of Hate," the 2003
report documenting the flow of money from the United States into
the coffers of the Sangh Parivar in India, almost all of the
documentation used to construct the current report comes from the
archives of the HSC itself and from the publications of the Sangh
Parivar in North America and elsewhere. Starting with the origin
of the HSC in 1991, when Ajay Shah, the first president of the
HSC, proudly declared that the HSC was part of the VHP of America,
the report documents the rise of early HSC leaders into the ranks
of Sangh Parivar leadership in North America, the detailed family
connections between a significant section of the HSC leadership
and the Sangh Parivar, and the central role played by the HSC in
the creation and maintenance of the Sangh Parivar's internet
infrastructure, including the web infrastructure of the Sangh
Parivar's parent organization, the RSS.
"Most of the young desi Americans who join the HSC have
no clue as to the connections between the HSC and the militant
and violent Hindu right wing in India" says Samip Mallick, one of
the campaign coordinators for CSFH. "We fully support the creation
and existence of Hindu student organizations on college campuses,
but we are unable to condone the Hindu Student Council's continued
misleading of college students regarding its ties to the Sangh Parivar,"
he continued. With the launch of the report, CSFH announces its six-month "
Truth Out on HSCs" information campaign aimed at informing every
desi American student of the two-faced methods of the HSC and the
Sangh Parivar.
The report will be released on Sunday, April
15 at 3:30 PM at a press conference hosted by the Youth Solidarity
Summer at 451 West Street (@ Bank), New York, NY 10014. For more
information on the press conference write to: hsctruthout@gmail.com or call
917 232 8437. Summary and full versions of the report will be available
at the press conference. The report will also be available online
at www.stopfundinghate.org after 3 PM on Sunday April 15, 2007.