‘Love Jihad’ a jumla, BJP targeting specific community’: Rajasthan CM Gehlot
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on November 21 dismissed the love jihad phenomenon and called it a ‘jumla’. He also slammed the BJP over love jihad, saying that the party is playing politics with the issue and constantly targeting a specific community.
“It's an unfortunate incident. It has been given a name & 'jumla' has been made. Inter-caste & interfaith marriages have been taking place for a long time now. But politics is being done on basis of the manner in which one community has been targeted,” CM Gehlot said.
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The Rajasthan CM also showed confidence in Congress doing well in the upcoming Gujarat Assembly polls.
"Congress will do well in these elections because the mood of the public is against BJP for mismanaging COVID and the economy. Our party is looking at winning 125 seats and we are well on course to do that. Opposition to the BJP government this time wasn't there the last time. People are agitated. The entire country saw the mismanagement during COVID, especially in the state which was strong even before independence," CM Gehlot said.
He also slammed BJP on Morbi incident. "There was Morbi incident. We demanded a fair probe by a sitting or retired judge of HC. But it didn't happen. Gujarat HC took suo moto cognisance. People died due to illicit liquor. The government's politics of gimmicks are not going to work, there will be surprising results," he said.
Gehlot criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for visiting the state so frequently recently, saying that they are doing so because the BJP is "being wiped out of Gujarat."
Gujarat Assembly elections voting will take place on December 1 and December 5. The votes will be counted on December 8.
First published: 21 November 2022, 19:14 IST