Sun 01 November 2020:
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today cited an Allahabad High Court order on religious conversion for marriage to raise the issue of “love jihad”, and invoke “Ram naam satya” – a Hindu funeral chant – to issue a thinly-veiled threat to “those who… play with our sisters’ respect”.
Yogi Adityanath, whose administration has been criticised for a spate of horrific crimes against women – including two separate instances of alleged rape against Dalit women in September – also repeated his plans for a “Mission Shakti” to “make sure all sisters and daughters are protected”.
“Allahabad High Court has said religious conversion isn’t necessary for marriage. The government will work to curb “love jihad”. We will make a law. I warn those who conceal their identity and play with our sisters’ respect,” Yogi Adityanath said at a rally in Jaunpur for by-polls to eight Assembly seats.
“If you don’t mend your ways, ‘Ram naam satya’ (the chant associated with Hindu funerals) journey will begin,” he said, adding that his government would “make sure sisters, daughters are protected. We will go to every extent to make this operation a success”.
“Love jihad” is the term used by right-wing groups to target relationships between Muslim men and Hindu women, which, they say, is an elaborate ruse to forcibly convert the women.
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