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TopicBajrang Dal

Topic: Bajrang Dal

Bajrang Dal — the group accused of taking UP’s illegal conversion law into its own hands

Bajrang Dal is in the headlines over the ‘love jihad’ issue in UP, and over allegations that Facebook looked the other way despite internal call to ban it.

With no evidence of ‘love jihad’, man released from jail but UP police say probe to continue

Rashid was arrested earlier this month under ‘love jihad’ law. His wife, Pinky, says she doesn’t wish to live in UP where their marriage was put to test.

‘They crossed limits’ — VHP says will take legal action against WSJ over Bajrang Dal report

WSJ report says despite an internal assessment calling for a ban on Bajrang Dal, Facebook has not cracked down on the group over financial and safety considerations.

Facebook fears ban on Bajrang Dal could risk staff safety, business prospects — WSJ report

Facebook safety team concluded this year that Bajrang Dal supported violence against minorities and likely qualified as a ‘dangerous organisation’, the WSJ report said.

UP must stop enforcement of ‘love jihad’ law. Criminalising such marriages is unacceptable

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Assam Bajrang Dal leader says will stop Hindus going to church on Christmas, ‘case filed’

At an event last week, Mithun Nath, Bajrang Dal's Cachar district general secretary, threatened Hindus with 'dire consequences' if they visited any church to celebrate Christmas.

VHP asks Bajrang Dal, Durga Vahini to meet Hindu families & caution them against ‘love jihad’

Vinod Bansal, VHP national spokesperson, says Hindu families have to be first informed about ‘love jihad’ as there are certain patterns that are followed to lure young innocent women.

VHP and its youth wings to begin ‘boycott China’ campaign, ‘expose’ its hand in Covid outbreak

VHP leader Milind Parande says China ‘needs to be taught a lesson’, and that this is an India with strong leadership, ‘unlike 1962’.

Two Bajrang Dal activists booked for planting saffron flags on shops in Nalanda

The FIR has been lodged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 147 (punishment for rioting), as also the Information Technology Act.

Ghar wapsi, ‘discriminatory’ Articles 29, 30 on VHP agenda for Prayagraj meet Monday

The issue of religious conversion will be taken up by VHP’s apex council Kendriya Margdarshak Mandal, which is set to meet at Prayagraj on 20 January.

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