After Himanta Sarma, Shivraj Chouhan Calls For Regulation In opposition to “Love Jihad”

“This isn’t love. That is jihad within the title of affection,” Shivraj Singh Chouhan stated.

Bhopal:

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan right this moment stated the state may have a recent legislation in opposition to “love jihad” if want be, citing the grisly homicide of Shraddha Walkar by her boyfriend Aftaab Poonawala in Delhi that has shocked the nation. Talking at an occasion meant to mark the martyrdom anniversary of tribal icon Tantiya Bhil, Mr Chouhan stated the state is not going to permit anybody to “delude its daughters and chop them up into 35 items”.

“This isn’t love. That is jihad within the title of affection. I will not permit this sport of affection jihad on the soil of Madhya Pradesh at any value,” Mr Chouhan stated.  

The time period love-jihad has been coined by the proper wing to explain many inter-faith relationships. A bit of the proper wing contends that Muslim males intentionally lure Hindu ladies into relationships to make sure their non secular conversion.   

“Can anybody will delude our daughters, marry them and chop them up into 35 items? Are we going to permit that? We’ll by no means permit it. So if want be, we’ll enact a robust legislation in opposition to love jihad,” he added.

Mr Chouhan is the second BJP Chief Minister to name for a robust legislation in opposition to “love jihad”, citing the homicide of Shraddha Walkar.  

In a current interview to NDTV, Mr Chouhan’s Assam counterpart, Himanta Biswa Sarma, had stated  “love jihad” is a “actuality” and the nation wants a “strict legislation” in opposition to it.  

“Love jihad is a actuality from a nationwide perspective,” Mr Sarma had stated. “There may be proof of affection jihad (within the Walkar case)… even in Aaftab’s polygraph check, it’s stated that he revealed that his actions will take him to jannat (heaven). There are stories on it,” he had instructed NDTV.  

BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh already has an anti-conversion legislation, dubbed the “anti-love jihad legislation”.  

In 2021, the state authorities enacted a legislation which penalises non secular conversions by way of fraudulent means. It offers for jail phrases of as much as 10 years and fines as much as Rs 1 lakh.

Mr Chouhan had declared that if somebody “plots non secular conversion or does something like ‘love jihad’, you can be destroyed”.

In February 2020, the Union Dwelling Ministry had instructed parliament that the time period “love jihad” will not be outlined beneath present legal guidelines and no case has been reported by any Central company — formally distancing itself from time period.   

Requested in regards to the matter, Himanta Biswa Sarma had stated there may be an effort now to discover a authorized definition for the time period, “as a result of we’re satisfied that love jihad exists even if you conduct a polygraph check”.