{"id":2113,"date":"2002-06-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/06\/23\/2002-06-23-vhp-missionary-enrollment-program-meets-modest-success-in-kerala\/"},"modified":"2002-06-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-23T12:00:00","slug":"2002-06-23-vhp-missionary-enrollment-program-meets-modest-success-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/06\/23\/2002-06-23-vhp-missionary-enrollment-program-meets-modest-success-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"VHP Missionary Enrollment Program Meets Modest Success in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/nonfram\/100602\/detNAT10.asp\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, SOUTH INDIA, June 9, 2002: A VHP recruitment drive here got off to a slower-than-hoped start, but the local leaders were still satisfied with the results. Though the drive was aimed at enlisting youth in a program to check conversion in tribal areas, half those enrolling were older. VHP organizing secretary Kummanam Rajasekharan said he was satisfied with the numbers. &#8220;It is just the beginning. Teething problems are there. Once the first batch is out more youth can be attracted.&#8221; The VHP&#8217;s latest plan had evoked protests from various quarters. Communists and social activists had dubbed it as a ploy to &#8216;Gujaratize&#8217; the hitherto peaceful state. Opposition leader V. S. Achtuthanandan had asked Chief Minister A. K. Antony to ban the drive. The VHP reasoned that a state which produced so many Christian missionaries from its Christian minority should be able to produce Hindu missionaries from the majority community.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, SOUTH INDIA, June 9, 2002: A VHP recruitment drive here got off to a slower-than-hoped,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}