Hundreds of people, including women and elderly, gathered at Ram Mandir Chowk under the leadership of Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) MLA Sudhir Gadgil, wearing ‘Bhagva Topi’ and carrying ‘Bhagva Jhanda’ began their morcha shouting slogans against ‘love jihad’ and fraudulent ‘religious conversion’ of Hindus into other faiths.

Their slogans included ‘Love jihad’ virodhi Kayada Zalac pahije’ (a legislation against love jihad’ should be made at the earliest), they also swore not to let ‘Shradha Walkar’ type murder happen again in the future in the grab of ‘Love Jihad’.

A huge number of women folk also participated in the rally. They raised slogans with the demand of hanging of Aftab Poonawala who murdered his live-in-partner Sharaddha Walkar, a Maharashtrian girl in Delhi and cut her dead body into 35 pieces.

After passing through the main streets including Panchmulhi Maruti, Rassala road, Kapad Peth, Ganpati Mandir, City police station, the morcha reached the district collector office and a delegation met district collector and handed over a memorandum of their demands on ‘anti-love jihad law’, ‘anti-conversion law’ and ‘strict prohibition of slaughter’.

Along with  Mr Gadgil, Nitin Shinde, Nitin Chaugule, Swati Shinde, Makarand Deshpande, Nishikant Patil, Pethviraj Pawar, Neeta Kelkar, Sangeeta Khit, Bharti Digade and others leaders of different Hindu Sanghatana led the morcha.

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__Inputs from UNI and ABP Majha.