Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Friday said that his government was dealing strictly with matters related to forced religious conve...
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Friday said that his government was dealing strictly with matters related to forced religious conversions and cow slaughter, reported Ahmedabad Mirror.
Rupani said that his government had brought in several laws with strict provisions.
“Be it the law to save cows from slaughter, the law to stop land grabbing, or the law to punish those involved in chain-snatching,” the chief minister said. “We also brought a law to stop ‘love jihad’. We are dealing strictly with those who trap Hindu girls and elope with them.”
The chief minister was speaking at a ground breaking ceremony of building of the Raika Education Charitable Trust in Ahmedabad.
“Love jihad” is a conspiracy theory espoused by Hindutva activists, who allege that Hindu women are forcibly converted by Muslims through marriage.
In February 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government had told the Lok Sabha that no case of “love jihad” had been reported by any of the central agencies. But several BJP-led state governments have adopted laws against “love jihad”.
The Rupani-led government had passed the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act, 2021, in the state Assembly in April and notified it in June.
The law aims to stop the “emerging trend in which women are lured to marriage for the purpose of religious conversion”....
