Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Sunday said that his government will soon introduce a law against religious conversion, PTI reported...
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Sunday said that his government will soon introduce a law against religious conversion, PTI reported. Two other Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states – Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh – have already introduced ordinances that criminalise interfaith marriage under the fig leaf of the Hindutva conspiracy theory, “love jihad”.
Rupani made the announcement at a rally for the municipal elections in Vadodara. “We are going to bring a law against love jihad in the Assembly,” he said. “Such activities being done in the name of love jihad will not be tolerated. The BJP government will bring strict laws against love jihad in the coming days.”
The Gujarat chief minister added that the government has also framed laws against anti-social elements and land grabbers, with a provision for up to 14 years of imprisonment. “We came up with the Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act so that people do not enter others’ land and take over their property using bogus documents,” he added.
Meanwhile, BJP governments in some other states are also in the process of introducing laws aimed at preventing interfaith marriage. The Haryana government has formed a three-member drafting committee to frame a law on the matter. Karnataka and Assam governments have...
