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‘If Lord Krishna is…’: Himanta Sarma's warning after Congress leader's remark on 'love jihad' claim
Golaghat triple murder: Himanta Biswa Sarma slams Bhupen Bora for allegedly drawing a parallel between 'love jihad' and Lord Krishna and Rukmini's love story.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has hit out at state Congress president Bhupen Bora for allegedly drawing a parallel between 'love jihad' and Lord Krishna and Rukmini's love story while commenting on the Golaghat triple murder case. Sarma on Thursday said if a police case is filed against Bora for hurting religious sentiments, he will be arrested.
On Monday, a 25-year-old man killed his wife and her parents over some family issues, and later surrendered before the police in Assam's Golaghat district. Sarma has been claiming it was a case of "love jihad" as the husband was Muslim and the wife a Hindu.
Reacting to Sarma's claim, Bora said, “All is fair in love and war. There are many stories in our ancient texts, including Krishna eloping with Rukmini, and the chief minister should not harp about marriages between people of different religions and communities in today's age.”
Hitting back, Sarma said drawing a parallel between 'love jihad' and Lord Krishna and Rukmini's love story is condemnable.
"We do not want to take the step of arresting people but if Lord Krishna is dragged into controversy, several 'sanatani' people will file cases in police stations and then how will I stop the police from taking action?" he said.
"If someone files a case against a person for making such comments, he will be arrested," he said, without naming Bora.
Sarma added that 'Love jihad' is a situation when a girl is forced to marry by changing her religion, and Krishna did not force Rukmini to change her religion.
Sarma said "mistakes" committed by human beings should not be compared with Gods, "just as we do not bring in Hazrat Muhammad and Jesus Christ into any controversy".
"I call upon the Congress also not to bring Lord Krishna into any controversy. If the Congress keeps going against the Hindus, their last address will be mosques and madrasas. But maybe they will be removed from there too by the AIUDF, and they will be left with nowhere to go," the Assam CM said.
Sarma claimed there will be peace in the country if Hindu men marry women of their community, and Muslim men marry women of their community.
"If there arises a situation, where people of two different religions want to marry each other, then there is the Special Marriage Act. Nobody should cross the limits of the law, and force somebody to change their religion," he said.
What is 'love jihad'?
The term 'love jihad' is used by right-wing groups to allege a ploy by Muslim men to lure Hindu women into religious conversion through marriage.
Sarma said he has grown up worshipping in temples but if he is asked to offer namaz, then he will be hurt.
"Similarly, if someone who offers namaz is asked to worship in temples, he will also feel bad about it," he said.
"We have seen the consequence of 'love jihad' in the triple murder case in Golaghat. There have been many tragic incidents of suicide by girls who have been its victims. I appeal to the young people not to cross the 'Laxman-rekha' in the interest of peace and harmony in our state," he said.
Golaghat triple murder: Police apprehend prime accused’s mother, brother
The police have apprehended the accused husband’s brother and mother on Thursday in the Golagath triple murder case.
"We have received some evidence and based on that we have arrested the mother and brother of the accused person," Mrinmoy Das, additional superintendent of police (Crime) of Golaghat district told news agency ANI.
In a sensational incident, a man identified as Nazibur Rahman Bora (25), has been accused of murdering his wife, Sanghamitra Ghosh (24) and her parents, Sanjeev Ghosh and Junu Ghosh, at their Hindi School Road residence of Golaghat town on Monday afternoon. The accused later surrendered before the police later in the evening with his ninth-month-old child.
(With inputs from PTI, ANI)
