‘Love jihad’ on ABVP national meet agenda

The workshop will also take up for discussion issues such as live-in relationship, Valentine’s day, pub culture.

After BJP and RSS, it is now the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) that has listed ‘love jihad’ on its agenda for a two-day national workshop in Lucknow beginning Saturday.

The workshop, which will see, for the first time, participation of women members, will also take up for discussion issues such as live-in relationship, Valentine’s day, pub culture, women’s security and the need to develop leadership quality among girls.

“Issues of love jihad, live-in relationship, Valentine’s day, pub culture would be discussed in the workshop and views of the experts would be shared with the office-bearers. Lucknow has been selected as venue for the first such national workshop for women members of ABVP because incidents of crime against women like eve-teasing and rape have increased in UP,” said Dharampal Singh, ABVP’s regional organisation secretary, UP and Uttarakhand.

The organisation has sent invitations to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Union ministers Maneka Gandhi and Smriti Irani, pugilist Mary Kom, first female amputee to climb Mount Everest Arunima Sinha, and Indian Audit and Account Services (IAAS) officer Subhashini for panel discussion.

Lalmani Verma

Lalmani is an Assistant Editor with The Indian Express, and is based in New Delhi. He covers politics of the Hindi Heartland, tracking BJP, Samajwadi Party, BSP, RLD and other parties based in UP, Bihar and Uttarakhand. Covered the Lok Sabha elections of 2014, 2019 and 2024; Assembly polls of 2012, 2017 and 2022 in UP along with government affairs in UP and Uttarakhand. ... Read More