BJP-ruled states are making a mockery of the constitution through laws on love jihad, said All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi after Madhya Pradesh Cabinet passed the Dharma Swatantrata (Religious Freedom) Ordinance, 2020, a law against love jihad, on Tuesday. There s no definition of Love-Jihad anywhere in the Constitution. BJP ruled states are making a mockery of the constitution through Love Jihad laws. If BJP governed states want to make laws, then they should make laws on ensuring minimum support price for procurement of farmers and for providing employment to people, said Owaisi. He said that by making these laws, BJP is violating fundamental rights under the Constitution which states that the government has no role in the personal life of citizens.
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BJP-ruled states making mockery of Constitution through laws on love jihad: Asaduddin Owaisi ANI | Updated: Dec 30, 2020 02:48 IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], December 30 (ANI): BJP-ruled states are making a mockery of the constitution through laws on love jihad, said All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi after Madhya Pradesh Cabinet passed the Dharma Swatantrata (Religious Freedom) Ordinance, 2020, a law against love jihad, on Tuesday. There s no definition of Love-Jihad anywhere in the Constitution. BJP ruled states are making a mockery of the constitution through Love Jihad laws. If BJP governed states want to make laws, then they should make laws on ensuring minimum support price for procurement of farmers and for providing employment to people, said Owaisi.
Condemning the police action, AIMIM state unit president Shaukat Ali call it “the death of democracy and abuse of basic rights”.
“The press conference was organised at a hotel in Utraula to announce the candidature of Abdul Mannan, and the event was attended by him and several party leaders. Mediapersons were also invited. Now, they have registered an FIR against us… On December 17, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath organised a Kisan Sammelan and thousands of persons had gathered there. Next day, we had planned to organize a party meeting with 100 persons, but we were not allowed. This is how this government works,” Ali said.
The BJP is at the gates in West Bengal
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Trinamool Congress may be better placed to take on the BJP by forging a broader secular alliance
Of the five States where Assembly elections are scheduled in 2021, the political battle in West Bengal is likely to become the most fierce, given the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s aggressive bid for power in the State for the first time in history. Till 2014, BJP had remained a marginal player in Bengal politics contesting the Lok Sabha polls as a junior ally of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in 1998, 1999 and 2004. However, for Assembly elections, such as in 2001 and 2006, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee preferred the Congress over the BJP as the party’s ally. In the 2011 Assembly polls too, when the TMC finally unseated the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front in an alli