SP MLA’s demand - abolish Love Jihad committee

frame SP MLA’s demand - abolish Love Jihad committee

Annadurai
Samajwadi party mla Rais Shaikh has demanded that the Inter-Religious Marriage-Family Coordination

Committee formed by the women and Child Development Department regarding the complaint of love Jihad

case should be cancelled. mla Sheikh gave such a letter to deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and minister of the

concerned department Aditi Tatkare. lodha claimed, There are more than one lakh cases of love jihad in the


state. However, RTI has revealed that the committee has received only 402 complaints so far. mla Rais

Shaikh has demanded that the committee formed in the love Jihad case should be cancelled.


What has the SP mla said?

According to ABP Majha, the letter states that Interfaith marriage and Family Coordination Committee (State

Level) of government and non-government members has been appointed under the chairmanship of women and

Child Development. Your stand has always been that injustice will not be done to Muslim and minority

communities. However, it is clear from the small number of complaints received that the intention of the then

Women and Child Development minister Mangal Prabhat lodha in constituting the said committee was to create

misunderstanding about a particular person. Increasing religious discord in the community, deliberately harassing

the minority community and implementing wrong policies by the department. mla Rais Shaikh has said in his

letter that defaming a particular community does not suit a state with a progressive tradition like Maharashtra.

Had lodha given false information?

Also, the then women and Child Development minister Mangal Prabhat lodha, while speaking in the Assembly

on march 8, 2023, had said that there were 1 lakh cases of love Jihad and 3 thousand 693 cases of inter-religious

marriage in the state. This statement of the minister is baseless and without any justification. It has been

highlighted that it was given with the intention of defaming a particular community by creating misconceptions

about a social group. In this regard, I myself had sought information from the women and Child Development

Commissioner, pune regarding the complaints received by the Inter-Religious Marriage-Family Coordination

Committee.

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