{"id":22525,"date":"2016-10-19T11:16:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T05:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=22522&amp;preview_id=22522"},"modified":"2016-10-19T11:16:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T05:46:21","slug":"vhp-sants-concerned-over-declining-hindu-numbers-urge-to-produce-more-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=22525","title":{"rendered":"VHP sants \u2018concerned\u2019 over declining Hindu numbers, urge to \u2018produce more children\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Vishwa Hindu Parishad\u2019s two-day \u2018Yuva Sant Chintan Sammelan\u2019 in Kanpur ended on Tuesday with sants discussing the \u201cdecreasing population of Hindus and saffronisation of politics\u201d. The sants expressed concern over the \u2018one child\u2019 concept being widely implemented among Hindu families and claimed that India will only thrive if it had \u201cHindu politics\u201d and \u201cpoliticians with morals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Sammelan was attended by around 175 young saints.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/\">The Indian Express<\/a>, VHP national secretary Ashok Tiwari said, \u201cThe decreasing population of Hindus had always been an issue of concern. The sants have decided to create awareness among Hindus to produce more children.\u201d He added, \u201cIndia has always been a Hindu country, hence all those who speak of saffronisation should remember that the country will thrive only if it has Hindu politics and politicians with morals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swami Akhileshwaranand Giri, president of VHP\u2019s Yuva Sant Varg, said that morals and traditions among Hindus were decreasing with each passing year, adding that the only way to save Hinduism was \u201cto create awareness among people to produce more children and make them morally and traditionally rich\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Tiwari said cow protection was another talking point at the Sammelan. \u201cPeople should not let loose cows on the roads after getting milk. This should be banned,\u201d he said, adding that the sants will be creating awareness among masses about taming cows. Violence in the name of cow protection is causing anger among people, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vishwa Hindu Parishad\u2019s two-day \u2018Yuva Sant Chintan Sammelan\u2019 in Kanpur ended on Tuesday with sants discussing the \u201cdecreasing population of Hindus and saffronisation of politics\u201d. The sants expressed concern over the \u2018one child\u2019 concept being widely implemented among Hindu families and claimed that India will only thrive if it had \u201cHindu politics\u201d and \u201cpoliticians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}