BJP will act against 'love jihad', cow smuggling if voted to power in Chhattisgarh: Yogi Adityanath

Yogi Adityanath urges Chhattisgarh to allow BJP double engine govt. to take action against 'love jihad' and cow smuggling. He claims Congress has disrupted development, given terrorism, separatism, policy of appeasement, Naxalism, corruption and anarchy. BJP is a party of development, good governance and security. Congress has cheated people and committed scams. Vote for BJP to bring change.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said action will be taken against those spreading chaos in the name of "love jihad" and cow smuggling in Chhattisgarh, if the Bharatiya Janata Party comes to power in the state.

Addressing a rally in Kawardha assembly seat of poll-bound Chhattisgarh on Saturday, CM Adityanath termed the Congress as a "problem for the country, society and public".

Referring to the victory of the Congress in the 2018 polls in Chhattisgarh as a "mistake", he claimed Ram Navami processions were banned, while a worker opposing "love jihad" was brutally murdered.

"There is a double engine government of Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh. Love jihad has been completely banned there. A law has been made in this connection and against conversion. No one can convert illegally. If anyone does such an act, then he or she will have to face the consequences," he said.

'Love jihad' is a term used by right wing activists to allege a conspiracy by Muslim men to get Hindu women to convert by luring them into marriage.

"I am urging you to allow a double engine government in Chhattisgarh too. They (Congress) have been trying to disturb law and order in the name of love jihad, cow smuggling, mining mafia. Just like in Uttar Pradesh, action will be taken against such acts. Then there will be no problem," he said.

Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh have a very cordial relationship. For the people of Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh is like their maternal home. This state is the maternal home of Lord Ram and the paternal home of Mata Kaushalya, Adityanath said.