Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Feb 18: The state BJP president and MP Nalin Kumar Kateel announced the likelihood of law against 'love jihad' being introduced in the next Assembly session by the Yediyurappa government.
"There is love jihad going on in the state. I am confident that in the next session our government will bring a law to control love jihad in the state," MP Kateel stated after inaugurating the BJP state unit meet at the Kittur Rani Chennamma community building in Vijayapura.
A law against religious conversion through marriage has been already passed in BJP ruled states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. The law in Uttar Pradesh provides for imprisonment of up to 10 years and a fine of up to Rs 50,000 under different categories.
The BJP-led government in Karnataka had earlier passed a ban on cow slaughter in the previous legislative session and is soon hoping to pass a law against 'love jihad'. Praising chief minister Yediyurappa, Kateel said that the former was putting in efforts to increase revenue.
"When the Congress government was ruling the state, they ran the administration using 'drug money', whereas the Yediyurappa government made Karnataka drug-free," Kateel added.
In December 2020, the executive committee of the BJP urged the state government to bring in laws to restrict 'love jihad' and the slaughter of cows in Karnataka. The state government passed an anti-cow slaughter law in the Legislative Assembly and later in the Legislative Council amid opposition from the Janata Dal (Secular) and Congress.