The left has called this an open challenge to democracy and an attempt by the BJP to replicate what happened in Puducherry. In February, Kerala’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief K Surendran said his party only needed 35-40 seats to form a government in Kerala. In the past week, just …
Read More »Former BJP MLA Among 17 Detained For V-Day Attacks In The Name Of ‘Love Jihad’
Seventeen people, including a former BJP MLA, have been arrested for at least two incidents of vandalism in Bhopal on Valentine’s Day, after groups of people attacked a hookah bar and restaurant while accusing the owners of promoting the ‘ love jihad. ‘ “Based on the complaint and everyone who …
Read More »Rajnath Singh on why UP law is needed, MP ‘Love Jihad’
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 …
Read More »104 former IAS officials to Yogi Adityanath
The letter also said that all politicians must “re-educate themselves about the Constitution” (Archive) New Delhi: The controversial ordinance against the conversion of the Uttar Pradesh government has transformed the state into “the epicenter of the politics of hatred, division and intolerance,” a letter signed by 104 former IAS officers, …
Read More »1 month of the UP law ‘love jihad’: 14 cases, 49 in jail, woman ‘victim’ complainant in only two
Monday marked a month since the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh approved a new anti-conversion law to check what it calls “Love jihad”. Since UP’s Prohibition of Illegal Conversion of Religion Ordinance of 2020 came into effect on November 28, records show that UP Police have recorded 14 cases and …
Read More »The parliamentary cabinet is ready to pass the 2020 Freedom of Religion bill as an ordinance today
The Madhya Pradesh government approved the Draft Law on Freedom of Religion 2020 as an ordinance in a special session of the cabinet, after which it was sent to the governor for his assent. The state government has taken the ordinance route as has the Uttar Pradesh government to erase …
Read More »JD (U) is not in favor of laws against conversion by marriage: KC Tyagi
At a time when BJP-ruled states are enacting laws against conversion by marriage, Janata Dal (United), an ally of the saffron party in Bihar, claimed on Sunday that such laws will create social hatred and division in society that will not creates. Approve. “An atmosphere of hatred and division is …
Read More »Right to live on your terms, says Superior Court
Etah Police ordered to provide security for the couple (Representational) New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court ruled in favor of an interfaith couple, underlining that the woman is an adult who “wants to live with her husband”, has “the right to live life in her conditions (and) is free to …
Read More »Government MP’s bill against forced conversions exempts reconversions
Madhya Pradesh’s Cabinet on Saturday passed a bill to regulate interfaith marriages in the state that provides for a 10-year jail to ‘force’ women, minors, and people from scheduled castes and tribes to undergo religious conversion, while exempting the conversion to religion of the parents of its scope. The proposed …
Read More »Parliamentary bill ‘love jihad’: Maintenance for ‘victims’, arrest without warrant | India News
BHOPAL: Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s cabinet approved MP Dharm Swatantra Vidheyak 2020 (MP Freedom of Religion bill). It will be presented to the assembly in the next winter session beginning Monday. MP would be the second state after UP to have such a law, once the bill is approved in the …
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