Maha BJP MLA Nitesh Rane flags ‘love jihad’ threat amid Navratri events allow only Hindus
Maha BJP MLA Nitesh Rane flags ‘love jihad’ threat amid Navratri events allow only Hindus
Ahead of the nine-day Navratri events, Maharashtra BJP MLA Nitesh Rane has sought to restrict by religion.
The Kankavli lawmaker has directed organisers of popular Dandiya to check Aadhaar cards and allow only Hindus to enter the dandiya venues.
The remarks come amid assertions made recently by the Sakal Hindu Samaj and Bajrang Dal officials.
MLA cites ‘love jihad’ and religious conversion as reasons for restricting entry to Hindus
The BJP MLA voiced that it is the demand of the entire Hindu community that when Navaratri begins and dandia will be played, participants should be from the Hindu community. The organisers has been urged that if they check the Aadhaar cards of everyone coming in, at the entrance, and allow only Hindus, the Hindu women will not face any difficulty.
He went on to explain that officials had received ‘extensive information’ linking cases of ‘love jihad’ and religious conversion to such festivities.
Rane further added that Hindu women are lied to and lured. People who do not belong to our community come to such events wearing saffron and other attires and call themselves Hindus.
Notedly, earlier this month the Bajrang Dal and Sakal Hindu Samaj Sangathan had pushed a memorandum to the ADM’s office calling for garba events to be given conditional permission. They have called for women performing the dance to be attired modestly saying that obscene film songs and qawwali tunes should not be played.
According to a media report, they have also called for entry to be restricted to just families with venue officials scrutinising identity cards before allowing people to enter.
The nine-day Navratri festival kicks-off from October 15 this year and has the traditional Garba dance as one of its main features.
News Edit K.V.Raman
