MUMBAI, INDIA, December 25, 2003: About 500 tribals, including 200 women, were reconverted to Hinduism at a VHP sponsored Conversion Sammelan at Lalmati town of Gujarat on Christmas eve, VHP sources claimed in Mumbai on Thursday. The tribals included priest Motu Nurawalvi of Silo Delsya Church in Navapur town of Nadurbar district of Maharashtra. Twelve others from the church town were also converted, VHP’s Maharashtra unit president Vyankatesh Abdev said. The Sammelan was addressed by VHP General Secretary Praveen Togadia, Abdev said. The meet was shifted to Lalmati, two km from Navapur on Gujarat-Maharashtra border, after Maharashtra government denied permission to VHP.
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