‘Lord Krishna and Dhritarashtra also did love jihad’, claims Assam Congress chief Bhupen Borah

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has stated that Assam Congress president Bhupen Borah could possibly be arrested if somebody recordsdata a criticism towards him after Borah made extremely objectionable feedback linking Mahabharat with love jihad. Talking to reporters, Bhupen Borah had stated that when Dhritarashtra married Gandhari and Krishna married Rukmini, they’d indulged in love jihad.

Bhupen Borah made the feedback objecting to Assam CM describing the current incident of the triple homicide in Golaghat as a case of affection jihad. In the horrific incident, one Nazibur Rahman Bora killed his Hindu spouse and her dad and mom by stabbing them with a knife. The girl Sanghamitra Ghosh had married him ignoring the opposition of her dad and mom, and later marital discords led to the murders. Himanta Biswa Sarma visited the household on Wednesday and stated that the case was the results of love jihad.

Responding to the feedback, state Congress chief Bhupen Borah stated that love jihad is occurring for ages, and it came about even in the course of the Mahabharata instances. He claimed that Dhritarashtra had married Gandhari towards the needs of her household, and had even bought her brothers imprisoned for objecting to the wedding. He additionally claimed that Gandhari had blindfolded herself in order that she doesn’t have to take a look at Dhritarashtra.  

Bhupen Borah additional claimed that Lord Krishna additionally married Rukmini towards the needs of her household, and thus it was additionally love jihad. He claimed that Krishna had modified his title to marry Rukmini, and Arjun had posed as a girl whereas accompanying Krishna.

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma strongly reacted to the feedback, saying that if somebody recordsdata a criticism towards Bhupen Borah, then the police might be compelled to arrest him. He added that the incidents in Mahabharat have been love and never love jihad. He clarified that love jihad means forcing somebody to vary by means of faith, and neither Gandhari nor Rukmini have been compelled to vary faith. ‘

He added that earlier it was solely love, however now love jihad occurs and that’s why murders happen. ‘There were love between Krishna and Rukmini, there was no change of religion, there was no Jihad’, he added.

The Assam CM stated that Muslim boys ought to marry Muslim women, and Hindu boys ought to marry Hindu women, and if somebody desires to marry from the opposite faith, they will achieve this below the particular marriage act with out forcing a change of faith. If marriage takes place due to love, then it doesn’t contain change of faith, and the phrase jihad doesn’t seem in such circumstances, he stated.

Just like we must always not invoke Jesus Christ or Prophet Muhammad in any controversy, we additionally shouldn’t point out Lord Krishna in any controversy, the CM stated.

False claims about Mahabharata by Assam Congress president

It is notable that aside from being extremely controversial, the feedback made by Bhupen Borah are additionally factually incorrect. He claimed issues not talked about in Vyasa’s Mahabharata and he mixed-up incidents. For instance, the household of Rukmini was not against her marriage to Krishna, solely her brother Rukmi had opposed it. And in line with the scriptures, Balaram had accompanied Krishna whereas taking Rukmini, and there’s no point out of Arjuna being current. Arjuna had taken the feminine kind Brihanalla in the course of the exile for a yr, and there’s no point out of him accompanying Krishna in that kind when Krishna went to Vidarbha to marry Rukmini in each Mahabharat and Bhagawat Purana.

Similarly, in line with Vyasa’s Mahabharata, Gandhari didn’t object to her marriage with Dhritarashtra, and he or she blindfolded herself solely as a result of the Kuru prince was additionally blind, not as a result of she hated him. The story of the Kuru kingdom imprisoning 100 brothers of Gandhari together with Shakuni can also be not talked about in Vyasa’s Mahabharata, and it’s a current narrative peddled by the likes of Devdutt Pattanaik, recognized for spreading faux narratives of Hindu scriptures.