The Hindu Mahasabha may not have to travel far to find “erring” couples on February 14. Dressed in colorful wedding clothes, hundreds of students have decided to throng the right-wing outfit’s office on Saturday to protest against its plan to marry off couples found celebrating V-Day. “Since the Hindu Mahasabha has come up with this wonderful plan, we felt that the least we could do was to help them execute it easily. Why give the sabha’s volunteers so much trouble? So we have asked all lovers to gather outside the Mahasabha’s Mandir Marg office for the most epic mass marriage ceremony Delhi will ever see,” Vidhyalakshmi Kumari, who is organising the protest, said. [related-post]. To deter youth from practising “western traditions”, the Hindu Mahasabha issued a nation-wide plan to marry off couples found displaying affection in public. The right-wing group has formed over 20 teams to snoop on couples. Protesters have been requested to come dressed in “colourful wedding” attire, apart from bringing “wedding vows, bright flowers and loud dholaks” to drive home the message. Some student groups are planning on reciting “poetry” outside the office as a sign of protest. “This is about creatively fighting forces that undermine our right to love and occupy public spaces,” Kumari said. Students groups from Delhi University (DU) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) are also planning to protest outside the office. “It has come to our notice that you and your self-appointed brigade of protectors have vowed to undertake a programme on February 14, where you promise to marry off anyone who openly expresses their love. Will you marry a boy to a boy he likes? Or a girl to a girl? Will you . repeal Section 377? We will be outside your office on February 14 ,” an open letter by JNU students to the organisation stated.
