VHP prepares for 2019 LS polls, demands scrapping of minority commission

They also have asked scrapping ministry of minority affairs and glorifies 'gau rakshaks'

In the 1980s and early 1990s, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), a Sangh Parivar affiliate, had played a key role in giving impetus to the Ram Janmabhoomi movement that led to much bloodshed across the country, but the campaign also helped Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) electorally.

Two decades later, as the Narendra Modi-led BJP prepares for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, and incidents of lynching of Muslim men and boys become more frequent, the VHP is preparing to bring the cauldron of communal tensions to the boil.

At the two-day meeting of its central governing council in Vadtal, Gujarat, on June