A lesser-known radical Hindu group has started a poster campaign asking missionary schools across Assam to remove Christian symbols and churches from their premises and stop using educational institutions for religious purposes.
The posters were pasted on the walls of missionary-run educational institutions in Guwahati, Barpeta, Jorhat, and Sivasagar towns by an organisation called Sanmilita Sanatan Samaj. The posters came up after the expiry of a similar diktat by Kutumba Suraksha Parishad, another radical group, on Friday.
The group threatened to launch a mass movement if the missionary schools did not remove the churches or chapels, idols of Jesus Christ and Mother Mary, and other Christian symbols from their premises. It also asked the principals and teachers to stop wearing “religious dresses” to school.
