No more mobile phones for some girls in UP over "love jihad" concerns

The group aims at targeting girls up to Class XII to keep them away from the lure of men from other communities
No more mobile phones for some girls in UP over "love jihad" concerns
No more mobile phones for some girls in UP over "love jihad" concerns
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The News Minute| September 2, 2014| 8.54 am ISTSchool girls and teenagers of the Vaishya community in Agra will soon be banned from using mobile phones in order to protect themselves from the “love jihad” menace according to a decision made a prominent UP committee.The decision was arrived at by a comparatively urban committee, the Akhil Bharitiya Vaishya Ekta Parishad (ABVEP), consisting of a group of wealthy members of the vaishya community. Its director Kalraj Mishra told Times of India that the decision was made because the Samajwadi party was providing special benefits to “a particular community” while excluding others. The group has planned to form units of people from the vaishya caste to counsel teenagers without pressurizing them to take up the ban on mobile phones. They also plan to provide karate training for girls, said the TOI report. The group aims at targeting girls up to Class XII to keep them away from the lure of men from other communities.

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