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Probe sought into ‘Love Jihad’

KOCHI: The Bharatiya Janata Mahila Morcha State president Shobha Surendran has called for an inquiry by a central agency into the alleged functioning of a movement named “Love Jehad” in the State.

Addressing media persons at the Press Club here, Ms. Surendran said the Morcha would hand over all the evidence it had in possession proving the existence of the movement in the State to the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, L.K. Advani, thus ensuring that the issue was raised in Parliament.

The activists of the movement, allegedly with terrorist roots, were targeting girls on campuses by feigning love for the sake of converting and making them advocates of terrorism.

She said the Maharashtra government had ordered an inquiry when similar incidents of disappearance and conversions of girls were reported there.

The affidavit filed by the State Director General of Police in the High Court ruling out the presence of the movement in the State was a farce.

This, Ms. Surendran said, was to help save the face of the State government ahead of the by-elections to the three Assembly constituencies. Ms. Surendran said the ruling and Opposition fronts were united in turning a blind eye to terrorist elements for vote bank politics.

Opposition Leader Oommen Chandy’s reluctance to issue a public statement against the movement betrayed his party’s lack of sincerity on the issue. Ms. Surendran said that the police had not even bothered to question girls who had been allegedly detained in Kozhikode and Ponnani for conversions.

She claimed that threatening calls received by the parents of girls who had fallen victim to the movement, girls who had escaped its net provided evidence of the terrorist ramifications of the episode. Ms. Surendran also visited various parts of the city as part of the election campaign. She visited patients at the women’s and children’s wards of Sudheendra Hospital, Kacherippady. She met the hospital authorities also.

She visited the NSS Karayogam office and sought the support of the organisation. She also met RSS leader T.V. Ananthan.

The candidate was accorded a reception at the Abhibhashaka Parishad office. She was accompanied by P. Krishnadas, P. Sanjeevan, Rashmi Saji, Prashnat Kumar, K.K. Muralidharan and other leaders.

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