The BJP’s Karnataka leader has recommended his celebration people to consciousness on fighting “love jihad” alternatively of “minor problems” like avenue and sewage problems. Nalin Kateel, a BJP MP, made the remarks at a celebration assembly on Monday in Karnataka, in which elections are due later this year.
“I am asking you humans – do not talk approximately minor problems like avenue and sewage. If you’re concerned approximately your kid’s destiny and in case you need to stop ‘love Jihad’, then we want BJP for that. To eliminate love jihad, we want BJP,” Mr Kateel stated in a pep-speak for booth-stage people of the celebration. The competition Congress slammed the remarks, accusing the ruling celebration of seeking to polarize voters.
“This is the worst (reply). They aren’t searching at development, they may be searching at hate, they may be searching at dividing the country…That is why we’re handiest searching at development,” stated DK Shivakumar, the Karnataka Congress leader.
“They are simply gambling humans on emotion. We need jobs, we need that rate upward push ought to now no longer have an effect on humans, we’re concerned approximately the day by day residing of humans,” he advised reporters.
With elections simply months away, rightwing companies in Karnataka were urging the BJP authorities to crack down on so-known as love jihad, the time period they use even as accusing Muslim guys of “trapping” Hindu girls in relationships and forcing them to convert.
Various BJP-dominated states like Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh are thinking about legal guidelines to deal with “love jihad”. Karnataka has a regulation towards pressured conversions, however Hindu hardliners need a separate regulation for instances of “love jihad”.
