{"id":232647,"date":"2022-09-08T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=232647"},"modified":"2022-09-08T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T16:03:00","slug":"no-garba-without-id-proof-says-madhya-pradesh-minister-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/09\/08\/no-garba-without-id-proof-says-madhya-pradesh-minister-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"“No Garba Without ID Proof,” Says Madhya Pradesh Minister. Here’s Why."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Show identity proof before entering garba pandals, Madhya Pradesh minister Usha Thakur said<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Just ahead of the Navratri\u00a0festivities, Usha Thakur, the Minister for Culture in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh, has issued a warning in view of what she claimed to be rising incidents of “love jihad” in the state, saying that all participants must now carry identity proof\u00a0in order to enter garba<\/em>\u00a0venues. “Garba pandals<\/em> have become the medium for love jihad. So, now, there will be no entry without identity cards,” the minister told reporters in Gwalior.<\/p>\n

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Ahead of the #Navratri<\/a>@UshaThakurMLA<\/a> Minister for Culture in MP, has issued a warning in view of what she claimed to be rising incidents of #lovejihad<\/a> in the state, saying that all participants must now carry valid identity proofs in order to enter Garba venues @ndtv<\/a>@ndtvindia<\/a>pic.twitter.com\/EGMk22gFLk<\/a><\/p>\n

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Garba<\/em>\u00a0is a traditional dance performed during the nine-day Hindu festival of Navratri.<\/p>\n

“People in general and all allied organisations are aware that garba\u00a0pandals<\/em> have become a major medium for love jihad. That is why we want to ensure that no one enters a garba\u00a0pandal<\/em> by hiding his identity. This is an advice as well as a warning,” Ms Thakur said.<\/p>\n

“Love jihad”\u00a0is a term used by certain radical Hindu groups, suggesting that Muslim men often seek to deceive Hindu women through marriage and convert them to Islam. Under the new anti-conversion law, interfaith couples must give two months’ notice to a district official before getting married.<\/p>\n

Earlier, in 2014, when Ms Thakur was a legislator, she had stirred a controversy, saying that she wanted to block Muslims from attending garba<\/em>. She also took the initiative of drafting a letter to all garba<\/em>\u00a0organisers in her constituency and asking them to ban Muslim men from participating in the dance ritual\u00a0and even stop them from interacting with women.<\/p>\n

She had reportedly claimed that each year during garba<\/em>, more than four lakh Hindu girls are converted to Islam, though there are no official statistics to corroborate her claims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n