Lending his support to the ‘love jihad’ law, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said on Wednesday that the governments that passed the ordinances have viewed misdeeds as “massive and forced conversion for marriage” as “Muslims do not they can marry someone of another faith. ” .
“I want to know why there should be conversions. The practice of mass conversions should stop. As far as I know, in the Muslim religion, one cannot marry someone of another religion. I personally do not approve of marriage conversion,” said the minister. Defense, adding that state governments have taken all this into account before making laws, since “there is a great difference between natural marriage and forced conversion for marriage.”
The controversial anti-conversion ordinance in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh has sparked several reactions. The UP government received a letter, signed by 104 former IAS officers, including former national security adviser Shivshankar Menon, former Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and former adviser to Prime Minister TKA Nair, saying the state has been transformed. at “the epicenter of the politics of hatred, division and intolerance” after the ordinance.
The letter cited multiple cases in which men from the minority community were targeted. He claimed that a UP case in Moradabad earlier this month came to light in which two men were allegedly approached by Bajrang Dal, taken to the police and arrested on allegations that one of them had forced a Hindu girl to marry. with the.
Hearing the case of an interfaith couple, the Allahabad High Court had stressed last week that an adult woman has “the right to live life on her own terms”. The court had previously approved another order in which it said that “interference in a personal relationship would constitute a serious violation of the right to freedom of choice of the two persons.”
Like UP, Madhya Pradesh has also given its approval to its’ love jihad; ordinance, which is intended to stop religious conversions using misrepresentation, seduction, force, threat, undue influence, coercion, marriage or any other “fraudulent means”.
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