RSS Launches Campaign Against 'Love Jihad' and 'Illegal Religious Conversion

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) launched a campaign against ‘love jihad’ and ‘illegal religious conversion through enticements’. ‘Love jihad’ is a term coined by Sangh’s affiliate Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) to define Hindu women being lured by Muslim men through fake identity to enter a relationship and for being converted to Islam. ‘Matantaran’ (religious conversion through enticements) and love jihad have long been on the Sangh’s agenda but got further impetus since 2017 when a “double engine” BJP government at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh have been in power.