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Bid to communalise marriages: AIDWA

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Women must uphold right to self-choice marriage

Young couples have to leave home States, family members are harassed Government indifferent to marriage of minor girls

NEW DELHI: The All-India Women's Democratic Association (AIDWA) has condemned the attempts being made by the Sangh parivar to `communalise' inter-religious, self-choice marriages.

In a statement here on Wednesday, it said the harassment of couples who married across religions in Surat in Gujarat and Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh — both States ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party — was a violation of the Constitution and indicative of the parivar's `communal' nature. While the young couples had to leave their States, in Madhya Pradesh their family members were threatened and harassed by the police and the "henchmen" of the parivar.

`Objectionable CD'

These incidents occurred at a time when the BJP released an objectionable CD, as part of its election campaign in Uttar Pradesh, depicting inflammatory scenes of Hindu girls being lured away and forcibly converted to Islam by Muslims disguised as Hindus.

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