``We appeal to the foreign missionaries to go back,'' VHP general secretary Acharya Giriraj Kishore told reporters today. He, however, ruled out inviting the Union Home Ministry to intervene in the matter. ``Social awareness is more important,'' he quipped.

In a simultaneous development, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh today decided to fully back the nationwide campaign launched by Swadeshi Jagaran Manch to raise public awareness among the people about the threat posed by multi-national corporations.

As part of this campaign, the RSS and its frontal organisations such as the Bharatiya Janata Party, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, Sewa Bharati, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and the VHP will join the Chetna Yatra organised throughout thecountry by the SJM.

``This campiagn is meant to declare a war against the MNCs and also to make the people aware of the dangers of globalisation,'' Delhi RSS chief Satya Narayan Bansal told reporters today. In Delhi, he added, the campaign will be organised from October 2 to 12 through at three levels -- distribution of literature and pamphlets, organising seminars and rallies. ``It will culminate in a massive rally which will commence at Raj Ghat and end at Raja Garden,'' Bansal pointed out.

While making out a case against foreign missionaries, the VHP general secretary, in the meanwhile, referred to insurgency in Assam and Nagaland. ``While ULFA had direct links with Bangladesh, the NSCN, which was responsible for insurgency in Nagaland, drew members from a particular community,'' the Acharya said.

In this context, he also referred to the campaign launched in the past by the Adventist Church to drive the Hindus out from Assam. ``Again, in Manipur, Hindus were being targeted by the Christianmissionaries hailing from the adjoining Nagaland,'' he alleged.

Reacting to reports of attack on minorities in Gujarat, he said that much of it was the creation of ``a one-sided propaganda launched by the newspapers.''

``The Hindus there are retaliating because of increased awareness,'' he added in the same breath. Citing an example, he said that in Surat, girls studying in a missionary school were forced to sign a pledge hailing Christianity as their saviour. Again, he said, a Hindu girl was abducted and transported to Bangladesh before being forcibly converted.

The VHP general secretary also sought to disassociate his organisation from its secretary BL Sharma Prem's statement justifying the rape of four nuns at Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh.

Condemning the incident, VHP general secretary Acharya Giriraj Kishore alleged that the incident of robbery and rape at the Catholic Mission school at Jhabua had been perpetated by people who enjoyed the patronage of local Congress MP Kanti Lal Bhuria and hisson-in-law Jam Singh Amaliar.

He also disapproved of attempts to give the incident a VHP-versus-Christians flavour. ``The two people who have been arrested by the police for the twin incidents are converted Christians. They have confessed their crime and have further named 21 people belonging to the villages of Jhirania, Runkhera and Dhebar -- areas which are dominated by Christians,'' he said, adding, ``The local Adivasis are unnecessarily being blamed for the incident.''