This is the kind of activity the HJS / SS is engaged in. Refer report in
Times of India dt 26.12.2008 below.

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Marshall


   NAVI MUMBAI: A carol performance in Navi Mumbai had to be shifted to
another venue after a right-wing organisation allegedly forced the original
host, a school in Taloja, to cancel the programme.

The even was finally held at St Augustine School in Nerul, Sector 11.

The state minorities' commission vice-chairman Abraham Mathai said
initially, the Taloja school had offered its grounds to a group for their
Christmas celebrations. "However, when Panvel-based Sanatan Sanstha learnt
about it, the members forced the school management as well as the police to
prohibit us from celebrating our festival there,'' Mathai added.

Navi Mumbai commissioner of police Ramrao Wagh told TOI, "Neither did we
cancel the programme nor did we ask the group not to perform at the Taloja
school. The institue took the decision to do so after a Hindu group objected
to something called, `magic healing', that was supposed to be held there.''

However, Sanatan Sanstha spokesperson Abhay Vartak said they objected to the
programme on legal grounds. "We are not against Christmas but we oppose
certain occult practices that were to take place at the Taloja ground. We
objected as we found out that `jaadu-tona vashikaran (countering black
magic)' was to be performed there. This is against our Constitution's Drugs
and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act of 1954,'' Vartak
said.

But Mathai and Catholic Secular Forum general-secretary Joseph Dias denied
the allegations. "These extremist groups bear a lot of hatred against other
communities. This is dangerous for our secular nation,'' Mathai said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Mumbai/Hindu_group_objects_to_Christmas_event/articleshow/3892516.cms

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