“This is not love. This is jihad in the name of love,” said Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Bhopal:
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said today that the state will introduce new laws against “jihad of love” if needed, citing the shocking murder of Shraddha Walkar by her boyfriend Aftaab Poonawala in Delhi. country. Speaking at an event to commemorate the martyrdom of Tantiya Bhil, the tribal symbol, Mr Chouhan said the state would not allow anyone to “fool his daughter and chop them into 35 pieces”.
“This is not love. This is jihad in the name of love. I will not allow this jihad of love on the land of Madhya Pradesh at any cost,” Mr. Chouhan said.
The term love jihad has been coined by the right wing to describe the many relationships between faiths. A section on the right argues that Muslim men deliberately lure Hindu women into relationships to secure their conversion.
“Can anyone cheat on our daughters, marry them and chop them into 35 pieces? Would we allow that? We would never allow it. So if needed, we will enact strong laws against love jihad,” he added.
Mr Chouhan is the second BJP Minister to call for a strong law against “love jihad”, citing the killing of Shraddha Walkar.
In a recent interview with NDTV, Mr Chouhan’s Assam counterpart, Himanta Biswa Sarma, said that “love jihad” is a “reality” and that the country needs a “severe law” against it. there.
“The jihad of love is a reality from a national point of view,” Mr. Sarma said. “There is evidence of love jihad (in Walkar’s case)… even in Aaftab’s lie test it is said that he revealed that his actions will lead him to jannat ( heaven) There have been reports of that,” he said. NDTV.
The BJP-ruled state of Madhya Pradesh already has an anti-conversion law, dubbed the “jihad against love law”.
In 2021, the state government enacted a law to penalize acts of religious conversion through deceptive means. It stipulates terms of imprisonment up to 10 years and fines of up to Rs 1 lakh.
Mr Chouhan has stated that if someone “conspires to convert religion or do anything like ‘love jihad,’ you will be destroyed”.
In February 2020, the Union Home Office told parliament that the term “love jihad” was not defined under current law and that no cases had been reported by any central authority. – officially removed this term.
When asked about the issue, Himanta Biswa Sarma said there is currently an effort to find a legal definition for the term, “because we believe that love jihad exists even if you conduct an examination. with a lying machine”.
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