VHP to tackle ‘Love Jihad’, ‘illegal religious conversions’ through public awareness campaign
The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Thursday launched a nationwide public “awareness campaign”, claiming that “love jihad” and illegal religious conversions are taking place across the country. The month-long ‘Jan Jagran Abhiyan‘ by the RSS affiliate seeks to create “a deterrent force” against “love jihad”, a term used by right-wing organizations alleging that Muslim men are luring Hindu women into relationships to convert them to Islam. VHP’s nationwide campaign also seeks to drum up support in favour of its demand for enactment of a central law against illegal conversions and ‘love jihad’.
As part of the campaign, the Bajrang Dal — the VHP’s youth wing — will take out ‘Shaurya Yatra‘ (valour march) in every block of the country from Thursday to December 10, VHP joint general secretary Surendra Jain told reporters at a press conference. “The Bajrang Dal will take out the Shaurya Yatra across all blocks in the country so that a sense of ‘Shaurya’ is developed among the youth and nobody dares to make our sisters and daughters victim of love jihad,” he added. The VHP leaders also produced a list of more than 400 Love Jihad cases in the press conference.
Jain said the VHP will carry out ‘Dharma Raksha Abhiyan‘ from December 21 to December 31. Meanwhile, Durga Vahini, the VHP’s women’s wing, will also carry out a campaign to make girls aware of the love jihad and alert them against falling into “such traps”, the VHP leader said. “Through Durga Vahini, a deterrent force will be created by spreading awareness among the girls,” he added.
Announcing the launch of the campaign, Jain said while religious conversion is a nationwide concern, “love jihad is the most heinous, cruel, and inhuman form of religious conversion.” Jain also released a list of more than 400 cases, registered by police in various states including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Kerala, and Delhi over the past 10 years, and alleged that all these cases were related to ‘love jihad’. “They are just the tip of the iceberg as they are not even 10 percent of the total incidents of love jihad,” he claimed.
The VHP leader said the role of social organizations, along with the government, is “very important in mitigating” such a situation. “In view of the scenario, we are announcing the launch of the VHP’s nationwide Jan Jagran Abhiyan today,” he said. Jain said a total of seven states have anti-conversion laws but they are not enough to deal with the menace of illegal conversion and love jihad across the country.
“Cases of love jihad have come to light because of some states having anti-conversion laws. There is a strong need for enactment of a stringent central law to check love jihad and illegal religious conversions in the country,” he said, appealing to the Union government to consider bringing such a law.
Later in a press statement, VHP said that Muslim fanatics should control their tongue and their youths by releasing more than 400 cases of Love Jihad. See the detailed Twitter thread of the entire list Tweeted by VHP:
Press Statement:
Muslim fanatics should control their tongue their youths: @drskj01
Releasing a list of 400+ cases of Love Jihad, VHP demands strict anti-conversion central law and announces nationwide programs. pic.twitter.com/LzlgdNdFDE— Vishva Hindu Parishad -VHP (@VHPDigital) December 1, 2022
VHP will also hold a campaign on December 25 and December 31 to arrest “vile” attempts of Christian missionaries to convert “gullible” Hindus to Christianity, especially on Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
The campaign will be launched nearly two months after the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh meeting in Prayagraj observed that religious conversions and migrations were causing “population imbalance”.
In the meeting, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale advocated the strict implementation of the anti-conversion law.
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Unfortunately VHP was sleeping all along allowing the situation to get out of hand. Even now it’s action is already too little too late. This menace cannot be controlled just by taking out yatras. There needs to be affirmative action and empowerment of Hindus which the BJP/RSS top leadership refuses to do. From the Hindu perspective, BJP/RSS and their affiliates have been a huge failure.
Good initiative by VHP. Under Khangress rule, it allowed all anti-social, anti-India, anti-Hindu groups to spread & penetrate deep into the Indian society, it would take another decade to expose every sleeper cell & retain our original India
God created mankind
Man made religion.
God did not.
Each soul created by God can follow their instinct.
It is encouraging that VHP is taking an active role in this regard. Hope more organizations follow.