Lucknow. These days the issue of love jihad is in spate in Uttar Pradesh. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has instructed to take strict steps on women harassment and love jihad coming from many districts including Kanpur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Balrampur in the state. At the same time, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, which has been struggling for a long time on this issue, wants a strong law to be made to stop it.
Seeing the matter growing, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has instructed the officials to chalk out an action plan to prevent such incidents.
In the recent few days, cases of love jihad in Meerut, Kheri, Kanpur have been catching on. According to Additional Chief Secretary Avnish Kumar Awasthi, the Chief Minister has asked for fast and strict action on the women harassment and love jihad cases. In Meerut, Kanpur and Lakhimpur Kheri, there have been reports of girls being trapped in the courts in the past.
Madhuram Mishra, province organization minister of the World Hindu Council of Kanpur, says the case of love jihad is very old. A gang is active about this. He told that there are some cases in Kanpur, Farrukhabad, Jhansi, Etawah, Hamirpur, Lalitpur, Fatehpur, every district. People are in contact with us. We are raising awareness about this.
Recently, the girl of Barra-6 of Kanpur had viral on social media and said to convert her religion and marry her of her own free will. After this, activists of Vishwa Hindu Parishad created a ruckus outside Kidwai Nagar police station, accusing the youth of forcibly converting. They had demanded action against the girl and recovered the accused.
Bholendra, the area extension head of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, said that Love Jihad is working as a network in every district of Uttar Pradesh. Its main agenda is. The incident in Lakhimpur and Kanupar has been exposed. Poor tapas and villagers are targeted in this.
ADG law and order Prashant Kumar said, the police is acting with sensitivity in the case of female violence. Special attention is being given to inter-things. Where the report is coming from is being seen in particular. Work is done on the basis of merit everywhere.
It may be noted that this issue was raised with great speed in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly by-election. During the 2014 by-election, Yogi Adityanath used to say at election rallies, “Now Jodhabai will not go with Akbar and Alexander will be forced to give his daughter Chandragupta Maurya.” Yogis have also often described it as an international practice.
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