Sangh Parivar-affiliated groups in the United States play a critical role in funding its cultural-nationalism war, political strategies, hate campaigns against minorities and critics, mythologised history-based information ecosystem. According to a report released through the South Asia Citizen Web titled ‘Hindu Nationalist Influence in the United States, 2014-2021: The Infrastructure of Hindutva Mobilising’, seven Sangh-affiliated charitable groups reportedly spent, at least, $158.9 million (Rs 1,227 crore) on different programmes, sending much of it to groups in India, in 2001-2019.
The seven groups included All India Movement for Seva, Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of America (EVFA), India Development and Relief Fund, Param Shakti Peeth, PYP Yog Foundation, Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHPA) and Sewa International.
The report recognises the following actions (Figure 1 below), as reported by the media, civil society groups and human rights bodies, from other nationalist and
— source newsclick.in | 30 May 2022