If voted to power, BJP will act against 'love jihad', cow smuggling in Chhattisgarh: Adityanath
love jihad" and cow smuggling in Chhattisgarh after the Bharatiya Janata Party comes to power, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Saturday. Addressing a poll rally in Kawardha Assembly seat, Adityanath termed the Congress as a «problem for the country, society and public».
Referring to the victory of the Congress in the 2018 polls in the state as a «mistake», he claimed Ram Navami processions were banned, while a worker opposing «love jihad» was brutally murdered.
«There is a double engine government of Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh. Love jihad has been completely banned there. A law has been made in this connection and against conversion.
No one can convert illegally. If anyone does such an act, then he or she will have to face the consequences,» he said.
Love jihad is a term used by right wing activists to allege a conspiracy by Muslim men to get Hindu women to convert by luring them into marriage.
«I am urging you to allow a double engine government in Chhattisgarh too. They (Congress) have been trying to disturb law and order in the name of love jihad, cow smuggling, mining mafia. Just like in Uttar Pradesh, action will be taken against such acts.
Then there will be no problem,» he said.
«Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh have a very cordial relationship. For the people of Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh is like their maternal home.
This state is the maternal home of Lord Ram and the paternal home of Mata Kaushalya».
Kawardha is as sacred as Kashi (ancient name of Varanasi) but mischievously they (Congress) have set up a person like Akbar (sitting Congress sitting MLA and minister Mohammad Akbar) here, the UP CM claimed.
«It is the mischief of the Congress to play with your faith in a holy
