The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a radical paramilitary group, is planning to convert 4,000 Christian and 1,000 Muslim families to Hinduism by the next 25th of December in Uttar Pradesh. Militants call it the ‘returning home’ programme. Father Francis Arackal, a Dominican priest and head of the department of Communication at St Joseph's College Bangalore said, ‘The RSS claims to be upholding the culture of India and Hinduism. They are doing cheap conversions. The proposed reconversion drive is being planned as a conspiracy politics. The State Assembly elections are due in Uttar Pradesh in 2016. This is a 'diverting attention’ trick. The other intention is to hide all the wrong doings, criminalising politics and communal violence in India.’