{"id":9691,"date":"2026-04-06T23:33:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9691"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:33:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:33:25","slug":"130073070-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9691","title":{"rendered":"EC seeks report on BJP pick&#8217;s &#8216;love jihad&#8217; remark | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130073084,imgsize-854759,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/image-ians.jpg\" alt=\"EC seeks report on BJP pick's 'love jihad' remark\" title=\"Image: IANS\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>T&#8217;puram: EC on Monday sought a report from Thiruvananthapuram district collector over BJP&#8217;s Kattakkada candidate P K Krishnadas&#8217;s controversial speech saying the victory of LDF or UDF would promote &#8216;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/love-jihad\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">love jihad<\/a>&#8216; in Kerala. EC has also sought legal advice on the matter.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>At an election rally inaugurated by Union home minister Amit Shah, Krishnadas alleged that LDF and UDF were hand-in-glove with Social Democratic Party of India and Jamaat-e-Islami, and that votes in favour of either front would lead to widespread incidents of &#8216;love jihad&#8217;. He further alleged that JEI or SDPI would control the govt if UDF or LDF came to office.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Krishnadas alleged that pro-Pakistan extremist organisations would actively promote &#8216;love jihad&#8217;. <!-- -->&#8220;Hindu and Christian girls would be trapped in &#8216;love jihad&#8217;. These elements would then use them for anti-national activities,&#8221; he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Stressing that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/cpm\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">CPM<\/a> and Congress were one and the same, he said, &#8220;Votes cast in favour of Congress or CPM would lead to &#8216;love jihad&#8217;. Such a situation is likely to emerge in Kerala.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>BJP state chief Rajeev Chandrasekhar sought to distance BJP from the comment, saying the party did not subscribe to the fears expressed by Krishnadas.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/ec-seeks-report-on-bjp-picks-love-jihad-remark\/articleshow\/130073070.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T&#8217;puram: EC on Monday sought a report from Thiruvananthapuram district collector over BJP&#8217;s Kattakkada candidate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[724,3636,944,723,719,720,721,24245,24246,24244,722],"class_list":["post-9691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breaking-news","tag-cpm","tag-election-commission","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-kerala-election","tag-ldf-udf","tag-love-jihad","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}