NEW DELHI: After an excited start to push “Love Jihad” as the new Bharatiya Janata Party slogan ahead of the by elections in Uttar Pradesh, top leaders of the party who were falling over each other to take credit for the idea, are now distancing themselves from the slogan after New Delhi frowned on the idea that had all other political parties and women’s organisations up in arms within hours of the announcement. The Opposition parties accused the BJP of communalising politics in no uncertain terms, while the women’s organisations expressed shock about the fillip this move would give to the strongly patriarchal society of western Uttar Pradesh that had made the killing of women an “honour” to be executed whenever the young girls of the region demonstrated their own will in romance and marriage. BJP state president Laxmikant Bajpayi and of course the overly vocal leader Vinay Katiyar pushed the idea ahead at the party’s executive meet at Vrindavan. Significantly the decision to include it in the formal agenda had been announced through the media a couple of days before with no adverse reaction from the central BJP. In fact on the first day when Bajpayi and Katiyar were applauding the idea, state veteran Kalraj Mishra who was representing BJP president Amit Shah...
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 19:20:35 +0000
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