Right-wing groups install posters on love jihad to raise ‘awareness’.

Hindu Organisations Demand Anti-Love Jihad Bill In Karnataka; install hoardings/posters on love jihad for ‘awareness campaign’.

Pro-Hindu outfits have demanded the introduction of an anti-Love Jihad bill in the winter session of the upcoming Karnataka assembly beginning from Dec 19.

B Upendran | HENB | Mangaluru | Dec 3, 2022:: Fight against love jihad is making waves throughout Karnataka including coastal region. Right-wing organizations have released posters in this respect and are urging Hindu girls to be alert.

Photo of Aftab, accused of killing his live in partner Shraddha in a barbaric manner are displayed on the posters and there is appeal to Hindu girls not to fall victim to love jihad. 

Pro-Hindu organizations like Sri Ram Sena and Hindu Janajagruti Samiti and others are going to hold state-wide campaign from December 11 to 17 urging separate law to deal with love jihad issue. They are urging that this issue should be taken up in the Belagavi assembly session.

Meanwhile, pro-Hindu posters are put up in Puttur urging for law against love jihad. The poster says that Shraddha was killed by Aftab and made into 35 pieces because of love jihad.

Hindu organizations including chief of Sri Rama Sene Pramod Muthalik are urging for anti-love jihad law. Pramod Mutalik has urged Hindu girls not to fall victim to the fake game of love jihad of Muslim youths.

Mohan Gowda, state spokesperson of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) said, “Incidents like Shraddha murder are increasing. Asha of Mangaluru changed her name to Ayesha and turned into a terrorist. A big dragnet of love jihad is spread throughout the country. Hindu girls are enticed into it. We urge the BJP government to implement separate law against love jihad in line of that prevails in Uttar Pradesh.”

The national spokesperson of HJS, Ramesh Shinde told Republic TV,  “The incidents of Love Jihad are rising across the country. A love jihadi named Aaftab barbarously killed Shraddha by cutting her into 35 pieces. These incidents are also increasing in our state (Karnataka). A girl from Mangaluru named Asha became a terrorist after renaming herself, Ayesha. Thousands of Hindu girls are trapped in this conspiracy of Love-Jihad. Thus we have decided to run a massive campaign against Love Jihad to save the Hindu girls. We will organise awareness campaigns from December 11 to 17 in every district of Karnataka,” and he also demanded the formation of an anti-Love jihad force and law in Karnataka, similar to Uttar Pradesh. 

Sri Rajashekarananda Swamiji of Vajradehi Mutt in Mangaluru has announced the formation of a Hindu task force to prevent the alleged love jihad cases in the future. Sri Rama Sena is also running a vigilance squad claiming to save Hindu girls from falling into the traps of alleged organised attempts to change the state’s demography.  

BJP’s Karnataka chief Kateel had stated the plans to introduce an anti-Love Jihad bill in Karnataka way back in 2021. “There is love jihad going on in the state. I am confident that in the next session our government will bring a law to control love jihad in the state,” Kateel said after inaugurating the BJP state unit meet at the Kittur Rani Chennamma community building,” Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have already implemented the law against Love Jihad.  

Karnataka is one of the first states in India to pass the anti-conversion law. The state passed the Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021 with a voice vote in December 2021.

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__Inputs from Republic TV.