Kesari Daily (translated from Hindi)
NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 12, 2004: An important meeting of the representatives of the prominent temples of West Delhi to plan the Sanatan Dharma Sammelan which is being held under the auspices of All India Sanatan Dharama Representative Sammelan on September 26, 2004, was held in the Sanatan Dharam Temple in Mianwali Nagar, West Delhi. According to the general secretary of the All India Sanatan Dharam Representative Sammelan, Shri Anil Gulati, the planning session was attended by the representatives of around 80 prominent temples of West Delhi. Addressing the gathering, a senior Sanatan Dharma leader and a Congress Party Legislator from New Delhi, Shri Rama Kant Goswami said that politics had no place in dharma and dharma was above politics. He said that the time has come that all the Sanatan Dharma bodies must come together and save the dharma from all kind of attacks that are being made on it today. Another general secretary advocate Shri R.N. Vats said that in the forthcoming Sammelan all the representatives of Sanatan Dharma bodies and temples of New Delhi would be extended the invitation to participate.
HPI’s New Delhi Correspondent Rajiv Malik adds: The All India Sanatan Dharama Representative Sammelan is a body patronized by the young journalist turned Congress leader, Shri Rama Kant Goswami, whose father was a well known Hindu scholar and priest late Shri Girdhari Lal Goswami who was close to the Gandhi family.