Berhampur, West Bengal:
The RSS-controlled Vishwa Hindu Parishad, on 17-6-81 converted a number of Santals including its leader Chunku Hansda and entire family to Hinduism at a ceremony near here. RSS leaders headed by Shyamapada Mukhkyopadhaya, VHP general secretary, conducted the conversion ceremony. Santals like other tribals are not Hindus but animists. They have been demanding a separate state of Jharkhand.
