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Marriages are made in park too !

Staff Reporter

VIJAYAWADA: Who said marriages are made in heaven? Well, they can be performed in parks as well!

When 23-year-old Vijay and 19-year-old Durga set out for an outing in the Rajiv Gandhi Park on Wednesday evening, they had very little inkling that they would enter wedlock in a few minutes.

Vijay, an autorickshaw driver from Bhavanipuram, was sitting pretty with his ladylove and enjoying the hot bajjis when a band of Bajrang Dal activists descended on the park raising slogans against the practice of celebrating the Valentine's Day. The activists, who were equipped with the basic material required for performing a marriage, such as a `mangalasutram' of only yellow thread and without the usual gold, some `kumkum' and `akshintalu', insisted that the boy tie the knot around the girl's neck if their love was true. The bashful couple had little choice but to heed their advice, and the activists presided over their `instant' marriage. The hunt continued as activists moved on to a nearby park to perform more `marriages'.

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