The Legal Rights Protection Forum (LRPF) has filed a formal complaint with the Ministry of Home Affairs, accusing Child Haven International (India) of financial misappropriation involving foreign funds. Based in Hyderabad, the organisation has raised serious concerns about the misuse of funds intended for child welfare activities.

The complaint, addressed to the Joint Secretary of the Foreigners-II division at the Ministry of Home Affairs, details allegations that Child Haven International (India) sold a property in Rangareddy District, Telangana, for a fraction of its market value. The property, originally purchased with foreign contributions in 1990, was reportedly sold to M/s Bollineni Casting and Steel Limited for just ₹2.25 crores, despite being valued at approximately ₹30 crores.

The LRPF’s letter, claims that the sale, which took place on June 21, 2023, raises suspicions of collusion and possible fraudulent activity between the society’s office bearers and M/s Bollineni Casting and Steel Limited. The property, which covers 3332 square yards, was later resold to Catalyst Trusteeship Limited in 2024 for the full market value of ₹30 crores, further fueling allegations of financial misconduct.

The LRPF has also expressed concerns that the funds from the initial sale may not have been deposited into the society’s designated FCRA bank account, as required by law, and could have been misused. The organization has called for a special audit and urged the Ministry to refer the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for a thorough investigation.

In light of these allegations, the LRPF has requested that Child Haven International (India)’s FCRA license be suspended until the investigation is complete.

This complaint adds to the growing scrutiny of NGOs and their management of foreign funds, particularly in cases where significant financial discrepancies are reported. The Ministry of Home Affairs is expected to take appropriate action in response to the allegations.

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A concept, an action, legislation, activism, anything signifying a higher human ideal and serving a noble human cause, with a genuine intent and untied to prejudices or political intent, can be appreciated.

However, when the outwardly intent of activism appears honest and virtuous in nature but is covertly backed by an ideological, religious or political bias, it is confusing to most people genuinely wanting to support a note worthy, honorable cause. Of late, this seems to be the situation that many young, educated, socially-aware Indians are faced with.

On the surface of it, an initiative appears worthy of their support, encouragement and financial aid, yet after a while, many people are disappointed to discover social, religious or political motivations to the charity, they had been supporting.

It has become fashionable for people to call themselves “activists”. The term is an all encompassing one, for just about everything and often times, a clever attempt to cover up the actual intentions of an individual or organization. Upon closer scrutiny and research, one is surprised to find unexpected links and connections that lead to distrust, angst and withdrawal of support to the activism or charitable cause, whose primary objective may still be a good, aspirational one. Many national level organizations that occupy the space of “animal rights” or protection, fall into this conundrum for the genuine, well meaning but unsuspecting citizen, that wants to support a worthy animal-related initiative but later realizes, there’s much more than just a simple and pure animal protection plan, beneath the surface.

One such “activist” is Alok Hisarwala Gupta.

Who Is Alok Hisarwala Gupta?

Alok Hisarwala Gupta is a lawyer but is known more for his “activism”. He is an activist focused on LGBT rights and animal rights, among others. He is also partial to labels like Environmental Conservation. So far, it sounds alright, quite straight forward, noble in intent and mission (animal rights and related), certainly worthy of our time and charity, Correct?

Think again. The problem begins after some research into the ‘activism’ and causes supported by an individual or organization or by an accidental discovery of the variety of ‘charitable’ causes, they are involved with. You start digging around and find more disturbing information.

On further investigation, one realizes that ‘activists’ like Alok are also involved in the favorite subject of the Indian Left and the pseudo seculars- protection of “minority rights”. The disappointment after the discovery of the many “shades” of Alok Hisarwala Gupta, changes one’s perspective of what appears to be an innocent, benign, worthy cause on the surface but leading to unintentional, undeserving support for causes like “minority rights”, which in India refers to special privileges, based on one’s religion, often times at the expense of Hinduism, in a supposedly ‘secular’ country, where no religion should demand or be granted special rights over the others.

Alok, The Anti-Hindu Bigot

More research further reveals that Alok Gupta is associated with news reporting sites like The Srcoll, The Leaflet and possibly The Wire, whose founders and management are known, even proven for their Left leaning views. A Leftist biased opinion or perspective is fair game to a robust debate in the grey area between the intellectual, political left and the right in most nations, however, in India, the left-liberal group is a bigoted one, rabidly biased against the Hindus. In India, the left does not focus on economic, social, political, environmental, educational types of indices for the most part, like they do in most other nations. Instead, the Indian left almost always drags religion into their lecture halls, living rooms and newspaper opinions, which is almost always pro Islam and Christianity and anti-Hindu.

Hence, while young, urban, upwardly-mobile Indian citizens are sensitized to animal welfare and may want to lend a helping hand to Alok Gupta and “activists” like him, it can end up inadvertently supporting and encouraging a different cause, because such activists also play the minority card & the divisive, anti-national game of minority politics.

Alok Hisarwala Gupta’s writings, give his pseudo- secularism away. He talks of queer/LGBT rights, animal rights, women’s rights and even matters of sexual perversion, in the backdrop of Hindu society and sensibilities. If he is truly secular, why doesn’t he discuss such matters in the context of other religions as well? When he speaks out passionately against the practice of temple elephant ownership, why doesn’t he broach the subject of cruel cow transportation and slaughter and ritualistic goat/sheep slaughter, associated with the minority religions? Why does this activist’s frustration, righteous angst, collaboration with foreign activists, his demands for changes in Parliamentary law accuse and impact the Hindu community only? At this stage, the alarm bells begin to ring.

Association With Problematic Organizations

Alok is associated with the following organizations: Vidhi, Centre for Legal Policy, Centre for Research on Animal rights, The Scroll news site, The Leaflet founded by Supreme Court advocates, Indira Jaising and Anand Grover and the Federation of Indian Animal Protection organizations (FIAPO).

FIAPO is run by one Chinny Krishna (Chairperson Emeritus) which has Peter Singer as one of its board members. Peter Singer has been defined as a “a Nazi, a reincarnation of Hitler’s deputy Martin Bormann, a baby killer, a philosophical hypocrite, and an enemy of civilization” in an article published by The Guardian.

It is noteworthy to mention that BJP MP Maneka Gandhi, received the 6th Peter Singer award for her animal rights activism from Peter Singer himself. Maneka Gandhi’s name has been hitting the discussions surrounding the death of Manakulam Vinayagar Temple elephant Lakshmi.

Indira Jaising runs a non governmental organization (NGO) called Lawyers’ Collective, the license of which was permanently cancelled by the Home Ministry for violations of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA). The Government of India accused the NGO of using foreign funds in a manner not mentioned in the objectives of the NGO. She was picked by the UN to investigate alleged attrocities by Myanmar on the Rohingya Muslims, who themselves engaged in violence. Indira defended the infamous “secular” activist, Teesta Setalvad on her post Gujarat riots activism even after the country’s investigative agencies faulted her for several misrepresentation of facts and misappropriation of funds. Anand Grover, Indira Jaising’s husband, is known for having tried to get a reprieve from the Supreme Court for Yakub Memon, one of the 1993 Bombay bombings, accused.

Alok Hisarwala Gupta’s writing includes subjects like social discrimination, women’s rights, sexual peversion, sodomy in relation to patriarchal Hinduism! Who are the national and international sponsors of such a hateful, narrow minded narrative, beneath several layers of a superficially innocent but covertly deceitful subject?

In an article published online in October 2021, Alok Hisarwala Gupta tries to argue that Hindu patriarchy is responsible for perversion tendencies, including sexual deviations!  History records numerous, unfortunate, unimaginable instances of horror and inhuman behaviour across all civilizations and cultures, both old and relatively new. Slavery, being one such behaviour. Outlandish, abnormal, cruel human behaviour is more related to human psychology, sociological conditioning and economic or ecological circumstances, rather than religion. What makes Alok Gupta focus exclusively on Hinduism and ignore the other religions practiced in large numbers in India, when discussing an ugly theme, unfortunately common to all religions and cultures?

A Filtered Woke

Many of us are familiar with the famous “Never go full retard” scene from the Hollywood film Tropic Thunder.

“You went full retard, man. Never go full retard!”, says Robert Downey Junior to Ben Stiller

A little tweak to the dialogue would perfectly fit for Alok Gupta who speaks about extending the concept of queer to animals as well.

“You went full woke, man. Never go full woke!”, somebody has to say this upfront to him.

In a paper written by him titled “The Despised And Dishonoured: The Non-Human ‘Beast’ And The Non-Confirming ‘Khairati‘, Alok Gupta goes on to argue this:

“I argue for parity of victimhood for animals. Animals are victims of sexual abuse not because of a pathological sexual depravity (an unfortunate colonial language which we must reject) but because of a deeper culture of violence in our society against the weak, who are necessarily gendered as sexual victims either as women, children, transgenders or animals.”

He wrote this in an attempt to shift the blame on the larger Indian (read Hindu) community over an incident where a Muslim man was caught for raping a goat.

“Therefore, the animal rights community should speak against the Hindutva radicalization of the rape of the pregnant goat from Nagina, Haryana, and the queer, feminist and civil liberties organizations must extend the politics of intersectionality to non-human (and also similarly gendered) victims of sexual crimes.“, Alok writes in the paper.

Here’s the abstract of another paper published under the title “The permissible and the perverse: Indian geographies of interspecies sex“ by Alok Gupta:

“We argue in this paper that what separates permissible from perverse acts of killing, or sex with, an animal is a matter of material and symbolic space. We focus on interspecies sex –which is often, but not always, bound up with killing –to argue that what separates permissible from perverse acts of interspecies sex in India, or husbandry from bestiality, is where it occurs geographically in proximity to an upper-caste, anthropatriarchal imaginary of a Hindu nation. We argue that the state-sanctioned abattoir and its breeding facility are spaces of normalized exception, in which anthropatriarchal violences are relatively permissible, and on the same grounds as in the “human” space of the home. We trace interspecies sexual contact across spheres of bestiality, animal husbandry, petkeeping, and population control. We conclude with a queer bestial ethics of avowal, one that dispenses with anthopatriarchal innocence towards a more capacious embrace of the panspecies desire for touch and thriving”.

This is the level to which this alleged animal activist goes to tarnish the Hindu society as a society responsible for sexual crimes against animals.

It is this self-styled activist who is going after temple elephants under the garb of animal rights.

Beware Of The Nefarious Agenda-Driven Activists

The world of NGOs and non-profits is a tricky, murky one in India, with many supporting an overt or covert anti-national agenda, aided and funded by special-interest groups in India and abroad. As already mentioned, an NGO with a seemingly honorable mission in the interest of animals, minorities, the poor, women’s empowerment, education or the environment, may appeal to many of us and our children, raised with good manners and wanting to live responsibly in the world while respecting all forms of life. By all means, support them but only after you have thoroughly checked their credentials and their ideological, finanancial affiliations. One must be sure of the real motive and intent of many such organizations, that receive funds from vested interests.

Many governments around the world, including India, have been complaining for years, about self proclaimed ‘activists’, NGOs and non-profit organizations, trying to meddle in the internal affairs of a nation, acting as lobbyists for international economic or political interests and acting on behalf of corporation/industry funded ‘special intetests’ groups or heavily funded minority religious organizations, under the guise of ‘secularism’ and ‘human rights’.

The individual/organization may well have its roots and real intentions elsewhere, that common citizens are not always aware of. The images we see may draw sympathy from us and rightfully so, provided the purpose is authentic but beware! Do some background research of the individuals and their organizations – you may be unpleasantly surprised to know that the real string-pullers and the funding behind the scenes, may have an ulterior motive, that is detrimental to the independence and sovereignty of a country.

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In a major crackdown against problematic foreign-funded organizations, the FCRA license of Christian evangelical organization World Vision India has been suspended.

World Vision India which claims itself to be a humanitarian organization is a branch of World Vision International, which explicity states that it is a Christian evangelical organisation.

“World Vision is an international partnership of Christians whose mission is to follow our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God..” is how the World Vision introduces itself on its website.

World Vision India is one of the largest non-governmental organizations (NGO) in the country and is into different realms of the social sector.

Hitherto, the organization had a license to receive foreign funds under the Foregin Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA). It receives funds from across the world including its parent organization.

According to the FCRA rules, an NGO seeking to receive foreign donations must utilise those funds only for the purpose for which they have been received and as stipulated in the Act.

However, the FCRA had violated the rules and its own objectives by utilizing foreign funds for religious activities.

According to NGO-watch Legal Rights Protection Forum (LRPF), World Vision India had received ₹28000 from New Zealand during FY 2015-16 as foreign fund for ‘Religious’ purpose which is in contradiction to their actual objective.

LRPF back then had written to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) seeking cancellation of World Vision’s FCRA License.

Found that 'World Vision India' received Rs.28K from New Zealand during FY 2015-16 as Foreign Fund for 'Religious' Purpose which is in contradiction to their actual objective.
Wrote to MHA seeking cancellation of its FCRA License for violation. pic.twitter.com/Az2aRTTmw5

— Legal Rights Protection Forum (@lawinforce) October 26, 2019

The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act also prohibits the use of foreign funds for activities detrimental to national interest.

When the pandemic struck in 2019, World Vision India along with another controversial organization Oxfam had unleashed a smear campaign against Indian Public Health Care System while soliciting funds for the same.

In 2019, Middle East Forum, a US think tank had revealed how World Vision was involved in terror-financing. World Vision was funding the Sudan-based Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), a U.S. designated charity linked to slain Islamic terrorist Osama Bin Laden. World Vision had subcontracted its work in the Blue Nile region of Sudan to ISRA which had reportedly given millions of dollars to Osama Bin Laden and raised funds for Hamas suicide bombings in 2003.

In view of the above facts, it has now come to light that the FCRA license of World Vision India has been suspended.

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Around 200 innocent people who were illegally abducted and held captive by different NGOs run by Christian missionaries were rescued following the intervention of a social activist named Kishore and local BJP cadres from Coimbatore.

The NGOs had rented a building belonging to one ‘Blesss India Children Home’ located at Attukal near Thondamuthur to house the illegally abducted homeless destitutes. This institution is said to have been closed in 2015 over violations of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

Many of those illegally detained were found to be old men and women who had families. Some of them worked as daily wage labourers and were forcibly abducted during their work. In videos that are doing the rounds on social media, they can be seen lamenting how they were forcible taken, tonsured and tortured by the members of the NGOs. Those who refused to get tonsured were reportedly beaten with PVC pipes by the NGO members. Of the 130 people, heads of 110 people were found tonsured according to the Times of India report.

One of the victims named Nataraj was quoted saying in a Times of India report that he was forcible taken into a vehicle by four men when he was returning from Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital.

Another person who was waiting to get free lunch provided by some NGOs were forcibly taken into a vehicle, tonsured, and kept captive at the shelter.

A man who had gone to pay school fees for his son and was abducted when he was waiting for a bus to go to Pollachi.

In another instance, an old lady who was sitting in a temple near her home in Kalveerampalayam, Marudamalai was abducted. The old lady’s relatives searched and caught the vehicle and in the intervening 2 hours, the NGO members had shaved her head, gave her only a nightie and burnt the clothes she was wearing.

இரவு வேலையை முடித்துவிட்டு காலையில், 1ம் வகுப்பு படிக்கும் தன்னுடைய குழந்தைக்கு பள்ளி கட்டணம் செலுத்த பொள்ளாச்சி பேருந்திற்காக சாலையில் நடந்து சென்றவரை அடித்து இழுத்து வந்து அடைத்து வைத்து விட்டனர். கையில் இருந்த 1530ரூபாயையும் பிடுங்கி கொண்டனர் pic.twitter.com/lskclruRmL

— Selva Kumar (@Selvakumar_IN) July 28, 2022

A construction worker who was sleeping on the roadside in Edappadi near Salem was abducted by the NGOs stating that they orders from District Collector.

ஜார்க்கன்டில் இருந்து கோவைக்கு ஒரு வேலையாக வந்தவரை ரயில்வே நிலையத்திலேயை வைத்து கடத்தி விட்டனர். மொட்டை அடித்து கையில் வைத்திருந்த PAN கார்டு, ஆதார் கார்டு, அனைத்தையும் எரித்து விட்டனர்
நன்றாக ஆங்கிலம் பேசுகிறார்

அருகில் இருப்பவர் தாளியூர் கிஷோர், சமூக ஆர்வலர் pic.twitter.com/hs656eZPvV

— Selva Kumar (@Selvakumar_IN) July 28, 2022

A man who had come from Jharkhand to Coimbatore for work was abducted at the railway station. The NGO members burnt the PAN card, Aadhaar card, and the cash that he had.

amount of hate spewed by ruling party on north indian guest workers reached a level where an illegal organ trading group abducted a well educated Jharkhand resident from coimbatore railway station, tonsured his head and held him captive in a remote location@HemantSorenJMM pic.twitter.com/vGD8f2tLlR

— Selva Kumar (@Selvakumar_IN) July 29, 2022

Many others who were detained also alleged that the NGO took away their belongings and their documents like Aadhaar, PAN card, driving licence, and destroyed them.

When the people had resisted, the NGO members had allegedly told them that they can go and complain to whichever police they want as nothing would happen.

The illegal detention came to light after the neighbourhood heard distressing cries from the building.

Following this, Perur Tahsildar Indumathi lodged a complaint with the Thondamuthur police station. A case was registered and six people were arrested which includes – B Jubin (Anbu Ashram, Vizhupuram); K. George (Paralogathin Pathai Trust, Chennai); V Balachandran (Meetpu Trust, Dharmapuri); C Arun (Anbu Jothi Ashram, Chennai); Symon Senthilkumar (Adaikkala Karangal, Coimbatore); Selvin (Pugalidam Trust, Chennai).

Once the neighbourhood alerted, a local social activist named Kishore along with members of BJP Coimbatore district had arrived at the spot demanding action against the perpetrators.

However, they were released the very next day on bail by the police. The Anti Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of Tamil Nadu police, which helped the NGOs, said that the district administration had given permission to these NGOs to go on a drive for ‘rescuing’ homeless people.

The AHTU inspector Roslin was quoted saying in a report that the District Collector had given permission two weeks ago to rescue mentally ill and homeless people and rehabilitate them.

“Upon the advice of the District Social Welfare Officer, we supported them and rescued only the destitute people. Without our knowledge, they took a few people who are not mentally ill. We have nothing to do with it,” AHTU inspector R Roslin was quoted saying in the report by The New India Express.

On the other hand, District Collector Sameeran had denied giving any written approval to the NGOs and added that they might have shown the letter requesting permission.

“The fact is that police believed it was for a good purpose and assisted them. The inquiry will bring out the truth,” the District Collector was quoted saying in the report.

Social Activist Thaliyur Kishore along with BJP Coimbatore Preisdent Balaji Uthamaramasamy protested for arresting and slapping Goondas Act against the culprits.

Selvakumar, who closely work with the BJP in the region mentioned that these people were abducted for harvesting their organs to be sold in the illegal organ racket. He also said that the institution ‘Bless India’ where the abducted people were kept was reopened in 2021 with the support of the local DMK councilor Ravi. He added that the police were complicit in the crime by giving the ‘license to abduct’ to these dubious NGOs.

Despite the crime being done by Christian missionary NGOs, both Times Of India and The New Indian Express resorted to secularizing the incident. The report by The New Indian Express make no mention of Christian missionary NGOs while the Times Of India report names the NGOs involved. The report by The New Indian Express also slyly hid the fact that the Bless India Children Home was involved in a POCSO case by stating that it was ‘closed in 2015 for some violation’. The Times Of India report branded the protest demanding action against the culprits as protest by ‘right-wing outfits’.

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More than 6000 non-governmental organizations registered under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) have either not applied for renewal of license or have been denied for failure to comply with the FCRA rules. This includes controversial organizations like Oxfam, Jamia Milia, etc.

Out of the 22832 FCRA-NGOs with active registrations, nearly 20,000 FCRA-NGOs had to apply for renewal by December 31, 2021. The Ministry of Home Affairs in a notification issued on 31 December 2021, permitted those NGOs who had applied for renewal who applications were not rejected to continue to use the FCRA till March 31, 2022.

This comes just days after the Home Ministry did not give clearance for the application submitted by Missionaries of Charity, the Kolkata-based NGO established by Mother Teresa.

Other organisations and entities whose registration under the FCRA have expired include the Indira Gandhi National Centre For Arts, Indian Institute Of Public Administration, India Islamic Cultural Centre, Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Foundation, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, and Delhi College of Engineering.

Earlier, several complaints were filed against Oxfam India for their activities in contravention to the FCRA rules. In March 2021, Legal Rights Observatory (LRO) had written to the Centre to take action against Oxfam for running a campaign against Assam’s tea industry.

Oxfam had run a campaign  asking countries to stop purchasing tea grown in Assam’s gardens, alleging that the tea workers in the state had deplorable working conditions and scant workers’ rights.

Thanks @narendramodi for directly naming enemies of #Assam Tea! Since yrs, @OxfamIndia headed by CEO @AmitabhBehar (treasurer of @harsh_mander NGO @CEStudies) running defamatory campaign against #AssamTea using #Bollywood. Hope @himantabiswa @sarbanandsonwal fully crush them pic.twitter.com/LUQ8CZtnXI

— Legal Rights Observatory- LRO (@LegalLro) February 7, 2021

In June 2020, legal activists collective Legal Rights Protection Forum (LRPF) and Legal Rights Observatory had written to the Centre seeking stringent against Oxfam India after they ran a campaign claiming there were no beds in the country in the wake of the 2nd wave of the corona virus pandemic.

Oxfam India's FCRA registration has ended!
Earlier we wrote to MHA seeking action for its smear campaign against IndianPublicHealthCareSystem, aiming to destabilize Public Order by Fundraising Campaign promoting nefarious narrative & panic among masses during the COVID19 crisis. https://t.co/gJhyTe3TIS pic.twitter.com/LKaPEjKDea

— Legal Rights Protection Forum (@lawinforce) January 1, 2022

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The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) suspended the FCRA license of Christian missionary organization ‘Harvest India’ on September 29, 2021.

Legal Rights Protection Forum (LRPF), an NGO watchdog which has constantly been reporting on illegal activities of foreign funded NGOs had filed multiple complaints ‘Harvest India’ and its chief functionary Suresh Kumar, for indulging in proselytization activities and violating FCRA laws.

PRESS NOTE:
Ministry of Home Affairs suspended the FCRA Account of 'Harvest India' (010260176).

Source: https://t.co/nxQSwGM1y9 https://t.co/YmmFw48xc7 pic.twitter.com/xHDscWCYWU

— Legal Rights Protection Forum (@lawinforce) September 29, 2021

Recently, the Hyderabad-based legal activism organization had written to the MHA seeking action against Harvest India and Kattera Suresh Kumar, for collecting foreign funds through fraudulent misrepresentation.

It has been reported that Harvest India has established more than 1500 ‘community centres’ all over the country for proselytizing purposes. In addition to this there are over 1500 to 2000 pastors working in the organization as well as in various other places undercover.

The organization had conducted events called ‘crusades’ to induct new members to their religion as well as train religious preachers for this purpose. The complaint by LRPF questioned how an organization that was supposed to be a not for profit body could gain so much money for missionary activities. In addition to this, Harvest India has not shown any records of utilisation of FCRA funds for paying the pastors or the maintenance of churches.

Harvest India had received crores of amount from Foreign Church organizations for Christian religious activities, preacher and priest training programs and other Christian religious functions.

It was also found that the committee that runs the organization comprised of people who are non citizens of India. Notably, many of these people came here on visa and violated the Indian visa rules by engaging in proselytizing activities.

In the 1st week of September, LRPF and the SC ST Rights Forum had written to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes seeking action against Suresh Kumar for misusing benefits meant for Scheduled Caste.

"Harvest India's President, Bishop Mr. K Suresh Kumar is not Christian, but a Hindu-SC", confirms Distirct Collector, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.

We wrote to National SC Commission seeking action.

It's a Black day for SCs of the country and opens pandora's box for similar claims pic.twitter.com/NO96gFSUQv

— SC ST RIGHTS FORUM (@SCSTForum) September 3, 2021

Multiple complaints have been filed by a woman belonging to SC community and resident of Kollipara in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur District, alleging that Christian Bishop Kattera Suresh Kumar is holding a Scheduled Caste certificate to avail reservation benefits despite being a Christian Bishop, maintaining a big church, running several Bible colleges and awarding Christian theology degree through a large evangelical organization namely Harvest India.

Suresh Kumar and his wife also run a big Church named King’s Temple. As per their tax returns filed with US IRS, they run 10 Bible Colleges. Following this, an enquiry was ordered by the District Collector.

In addition to this, Suresh Kumar is known for his rabid hate speech against Hindus. In the video above he says, “Right now, we are under Hindu rule. Our Prime Minister, he is a bad guy. He doesn’t want any Christians in India. He wants to make India as only Hindu country. So many pastors killed in last 5 years. Many missionaries, they send them out. There is unrest, turmoil. Pastors are killing, Churches are burning. The government is not doing anything. Brutal mentality, we are struggling. We do not know what is going happen tomorrow to Christianity in India, to Church in India but I am believing powerful god on our side. Next year we have election, please pray. I don’t want this party to come back. This guy is doing so much bad for Christianity”.

“I shared about the nation of India. Pastors are beaten, churches are burning. 5 years churches are struggling. Hindu militants posting videos in social media – husband and wife pastors stripped naked, made to walk naked just for bearing the cross of Jesus Christ.” he says.

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In the past one-decade, western donor agencies have propped up a huge squadron of NGOs and think tanks to work on human rights of LGBTI+ people and other issues. These NGOs have also branched off into following areas:

They claim to work simultaneously on the full range of human rights issues which is solely aimed at creating political and social fault lines in the country. From defining the school and university curricula to influencing law-making on critical issues, they dominate the entire academic, media and political discourse. Their principal agenda is to create a regressive stereotype of Indian society and project India (Hindus) to be ‘anti-human rights’.

The creation of this stereotype is undertaken in a coordinated fashion by a carefully designed ecosystem of NGOs, academics, media. The funding of each element of this ecosystem can be traced to some or the other western donor. Post 2014, the FCRA law has been amended to restrict their funding. Still, they have invented alternative routes to secure funding and continue their work.

Some of the key individuals/organizations working in a coordinating manner are:

How The NAM Troika Works

On the outside, these organizations, activists and media seem like they stand for justice. But all of them come from a certain political and ideological position. They scratch each other’s back to help them promote themselves at the cost of lives and livelihood. Together, they form an ecosystem. Together, they form what is called the NAM troika – the NGO-Activist-Media troika.

This ecosystem of foreign funded organizations, academia, media and other outfits peddle a certain narrative that glorifies certain values and exaggerates half-truths. They are hell belt on shoving their opinions down the throat of people. They must be an even angrier lot now, considering that the government has stopped the money flow through problematic organizations into India by cancelling many of the FCRA licenses.

The NAM troika not just influences policy making and decisions by nurturing opinion makers and thought leaders to stand against development projects, but also spread anarchy knowingly or unknowingly.

They target select Ministries like the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc and Statutory bodies like National Human Rights Commission, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, etc to lobby and achieve their vested interests.

Here are some examples on how they infiltrate the system and emerge as trouble makers

1) Training on gender and sexuality issues in Schools/Universities: Organizations like Nazariya, Nirantar etc and individuals like Harish Iyer actively conduct sessions in schools across the country claiming to promote awareness on gender and sexuality. Recently, Oxfam India had come up with the idea of ‘Equality Clubs’ in schools where children in middle and high school are put through modules on ‘gender equality’, ‘diversity and inclusion’, etc. Basically, catching them young and indoctrinating to development them into individuals who will subscribe to their point of view in future. Such initiatives are directly or indirectly funded by the dreaded and nefarious philanthropist George Soros.

2) Lobbying with government/statutory bodies: These NGOs and academic are also part of key consultations organized by ministries, NITI Aayog as well as statutory bodies like Law Commission, UGC, NCERT, NHRC, NCW, NCPCR etc. Rituporna Borah from Nazariya has been part of curriculum making process in NCERT. Many of the state and national level textbook development committees have such people in the board.

3) Engineering social unrest: Such NGOs, activists and academics foment social unrest through campaigns and protests. The anti-CAA protests at Shaheenbagh, the Thoothukudi Sterlite protests are case in point. The media is the vehicle on which all these people ride to engineer social unrest. Through left-liberal and Islamist portals like The Wire, Alt News, The News Minute, Quint, etc, these NGOs and individuals get portrayed as as an enlightened intellectual and activist. Together they manufacture opinions and build narratives that further leads to social tensions.

What Needs To Be Done

1) Create stronger legal regulations to stop foreign funding of NGOs: Reforms are required in the FCRA and other laws which regulate foreign funding. Most of these NGOs are still getting foreign funds through alternative routes through fiscal sponsors and getting pocket funds which are within the prescribed limits. It is good to see the present government taking steps in this direction.

2) Insulating policy-making process from anti-India/ anti-Hindu groups: India is a mature democracy with firm constitutional safeguards in place for all minorities and groups. The formal policy consultation and formulation process are being dominated by groups who are openly hateful towards India/Hindus. Therefore, it is critically important that the policymaking process is insulating from the influence of such groups. Instead, the government should ensure that honest activists and scholars are given space and are duly consulted whenever policies related to human rights issues are being discussed.

3) Influencing international law and policy making process: Like domestic policy making process, the international law-making on human rights issues is also determined by groups who are not aligned with our values. Most of the UN bodies who are responsible for creating human right mechanism are based in Geneva and New York. The government should support individuals who are experts in this domain and are also aligned with Bhartiya values to participate in international forums and conferences.

4) Educate and train a network of activists, scholars, journalists: Training modules on human rights issues attuned to Indian traditions need to be prepared. This should be taken up on priority basis. HRD Ministry should urgently take up this issue and ensure that groups like Nazariya and Oxfam do not get access to our schools and universities.

Activism on issues related to gender and sexuality in India is going in a direction which is deeply problematic. Most of the activists who claim to work on these issues are being patronised by NGOs and donor groups based outside India. The space for constructive activism is shrinking because people who do not agree to their point of view or cancelled, denied platforms and deprived of institutional support. Currently, several Islamic and Christian organisations have begun to take advantage of the vulnerable situation of people belonging to gender variant communities and have started conversion activities at a large scale. Therefore, it is extremely important to take urgent steps towards countering such efforts by ‘Breaking India’ forces. Our nation is already facing a huge demographic challenge as a result of conversion activities of the church and Islamic organisations. It would be a great civilizational tragedy if we do not act in time. Many of these NGOs who claim to work for human rights of LGBTI+ people are deeply connected with extremist political organizations and also foreign organisations who only have a divisive agenda.

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In an unprecedented move that will open India to more Christian missionary and evangelical organisations, the Centre might relax the Foreign Currency Regulation Act (FCRA) norms in the coming days.

According to a report by The Economic Times, several non-profit and philanthropic groups are extending support to Covid-19 patients in India to ease the burden on hospitals and the nation’s healthcare infrastructure. News of a likely relaxation comes a week after the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) had recommended the State Department to redesignate India as a “country of particular concern” (CPC), alleging that there are “systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations” in the country.

In a bid to strengthen such non-profit organisations (NGOs), the government is likely to temporarily waive provisions of the FCRA, the report said.

This will reportedly help the country’s NGOs utilise foreign funding and donations to help Covid-19 patients during the nationwide public health emergency. Quoting an official, the report said NGOs had been requesting the home ministry for such a waiver for the last six months.

It is to be noted that the Ministry of Home Affairs is responsible for the grant and renewal of FCRA licences. The FCRA rules are likely to be relaxed for NGOs after May 31 when NGOs apply for licence renewal, added the report.

The FCRA rule was amended by the Centre, and it had come into effect from September 2020. It empowered the Centre to hold a “summary inquiry” and order a “violator” not to use foreign funding. The report noted that this rule was earlier applicable to an association that was found guilty of violating the FCRA act.

According to the ET report, the relaxation of FCRA rules will help NGOs and other philanthropic organisations utilise foreign funding and donations for ramping up the supply of critical healthcare equipment to help Covid-19 patients who have failed to get treatment at hospitals.

The additional funds will help smaller NGOs and organisations provide better treatment and healthcare facilities to Covid-19 patients in rural areas, where the health infrastructure is weaker than urban areas.

However, the amended FCRA rules had resulted in some curbs on the funding received by several Christian NGOs running missionary activities in the country. Any relaxation in the rules is likely to lead to increased activity by these NGOs. Recently, Christian NGOs had claimed that they had converted more than one lakh Indians during the pandemic.

The Legal Rights Observatory (LRO), in a recent tweet, said that it has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah and made a counter-representation to the Centre, advising that any restrictions on the FCRA not be removed. Any loosening of the FCRA would be tantamount to “cultural genocide”, LRO tweeted.

Those holy souls from @NITIAayog including CEO @amitabhk87, pressing hard for loosening #FCRA norms by @HMOIndia are actually helping, contributing to cultural genocide of Hindus n indigenous people by missionary/Church. So better stay away from it!
Pandemic is just an alibi!

— Legal Rights Observatory- LRO (@LegalLro) April 29, 2021

The LRO had also pointed out that NGOs “with dubious background” had urged NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant to write to Home Minister Amit Shah to ease the stringent FCRA norms. Pampering the NGOs for short-term gains would prove “suicidal”, the LRO had tweeted.

In case CEO @NITIAayog writes to Hon Amit Shah ji @HMOIndia to loose the #FCRA hook, we will file counter representation to avoid it.
As they have already boasted- #ConversionMafia has converted more than 1 lakh Indians during 2020 #Covid19 lockdown n pampering them for short +

— Legal Rights Observatory- LRO (@LegalLro) April 26, 2021

term #COVIDEmergency2021 gains would prove suicidal for India- Bharat- Hindu and Sanatani religion.
We believe Hon @AmitShah ji won't let it happen as he has clear concepts about #FCRAViolation by vulture NGOs.

— Legal Rights Observatory- LRO (@LegalLro) April 26, 2021

Under the amended rules, NGOs were asked to register under FCRA to open an account at a specified branch of the State Bank of India (SBI) by March 31, 2021. However, the limit of administrative expenses was reduced from 50 per cent to 20 per cent.

The rule also mandates providing the Aadhaar number of all office-bearers, directors and other key functionaries. In a scenario where a person on the NGO board is not an Indian, a copy of their passport or overseas citizen of India (OCI) card has to be provided.

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Persecution Relief and its head Shibu Thomas who were recently exposed for indulging in anti-India activities find themselves in trouble again, this time over another organization named ‘Abundant Life Society’.

Abundant Life Society, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based out of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh has been found to be running illegal children homes. Mr. Shibu Thomas, who is reportedly an Indian-origin US citizen is the president of this NGO.

According to its official website, ‘Abundant Life Society’, provides shelter, nutrition and education to abandoned children at its facilities in Bhopal.

The NGO is also in partnership with Madhya Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (MPTDC) for various education-related programmes.

However, Abundant Life Society, an FCRA registered NGO receives funds from Persecution Relief, a US-registered charitable organization (EIN: 47-4628497) which is also run by Shibu Thomas who remains its only President and CEO.

Persecution Relief, an organization claiming to help ‘persecuted’ Christians in India has been working clandestinely and carrying out anti-national activities.

This organization has been gathering details about crimes across the country where the victims are Christians, collating them, and preparing periodical reports which are then shared with various lobbying organizations in the USA and evangelist organizations across the world. They primarily collect data of skirmishes between Christian missionaries who go for proselytization in villages and the locals there, in an attempt to make a case for alleged ‘persecution’ of Christians in India.

Persecution Relief works with several other organizations like the Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations of North America (FIACONA), the members of which justify forced religious conversions. FIACONA, is involved in lobbying against India with U.S lawmakers, Church organizations and the USCIRF to press sanctions against India.

Persecution Relief, in its Annual Report for the year 2019 termed rules set by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to protect the rights of children as ‘a persecution against the Christians in India’.

In page 94 of the report, Persecution Relief came up with this recommendation to the state and central government:

We request the Ministry of Women & Child Development to instruct Child Welfare Committee (CWC), not to harass Christian Institutions and Orphanages maliciously across India. In 2019, we have recorded many instances of false cases booked under POCSO, of whom several are still in jail. Children were evacuated in the middle of the night against the wishes of their parents, with little compassion or understanding.

It is to be noted that there already exists provisions in the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 and its guideline for non-reporting the incidents of sexual harassment against Children and even for false reporting.

Legal Rights Protection Forum (LRPF) which has brought the matter to light states that through this, ‘Abundant Life Society’ is intentionally demotivating the children who are facing sexual harassment and restricting them from reporting such incidents of sexual harassment.

“If they have any particular incidents in which false cases were filed under POCSO Act, they should have come up with all details.” LRPF in its complaint noted.

Also, in page number 116 of their report, Persecution Relief admitted states that “Christian schools, Children Homes and Orphanages are being attacked by Hindu extremists in India”. It went on to state that if any incident occurs in any part of India, it immediately comes to the notice of the NCPCR and gets covered by media followed by action of law enforcement agencies and added that ‘Attacking against Child Homes in India’ is a false allegation and it should be investigated.

Speaking to The Commune, Working President of LRPF A.S. Santhosh said “Since ‘Abundant Life Society’ is partnering with the Government of Madhya Pradesh and receiving foreign donations from the US registered NGO Persecution Relief, we are very much worried about the legal norms they are following in this procedure and also the security of the children at homes and shelters being maintained by ‘Abundant Life Society’ headed by the notorious person like Shibu Thomas.”

The LRPF has now written to the NCPCR to initiate an enquiry into the matter of Children Homes run by ‘Abundant Life Society’ and the condition of children of those homes.

To read about the expose story of Persecution Relief, click here.

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