Hey @sharmarekha - what on earth is a "love jehad" case? Any case in which a Muslim man and Hindu woman are in love? How dare you remain in your chair as @NCWIndia chief & use a term that a) treats women as property of communities b) hates Muslims? You bring shame to NCW.
Dear @sharmarekha - I have researched the so-called "love jehad" claims extensively (written a whole book about it) and am yet to find a SINGLE case where such claims have been vindicated. Please tell us a single case where the "crime" of "love jehad" has been proved.
In my book #FearlessFreedom @PenguinIndia, I profile the courageous women who have had to take on bigots like you, who sadly head courts and women's commissions and ministries. Remember the supposed Meerut "love jehad case"? It turned out to be a love case, they're married now.
In this video I discuss the links between the RSS term "love jehad" and Hitler's laws banning marriage between Jews and non Jews, people of black and white races. Similar laws in apartheid S Africa and Jim Crow Southern America
The journalism of @nehadixit123 and documentary Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai by filmmaker @nakulssawhney bust the "love jehad" myth showing how RSS and BJP men are desperate to ban inter faith relationships. If Yogi, Modi, @sharmarekha types have their way, they'll ban it! Fight back!
So dear @sharmarekha, since you're behaving like Mrs Kallumal not an NCW chief, do watch the delightful @AnilKapoor film #ChameliKiShaadi for an Amjad Khan lesson in the Constitutional, legal right of adults to love, marry across "biradari" boundaries!

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The Hathras gangrape victim passed away.
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