C.V. Wigneswaran, chief minister of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province, said difficulties faced by the Hindu community in the island nation did not come to an end with the Sri Lankan government’s war with the LTTE coming to end in 2009.
He said this addressing an inaugural session of the three-day World Hindu Congress in New Delhi on Friday.
India’s Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Ashok Singhal said the reins of power in Delhi have come into the hands of a “swabhimani (proud)” Hindu after 800 years.
Singhal referred to Narendra Modi leading the Bharatiya Janata Party to victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and said power had returned to a “Hindu swabhimani (proud Hindu)” in Delhi after eight centuries.
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama said there was a need to develop “knowledge of mind” and to remember “sameness of humanity”.
