29 January,2023 04:19 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Hindu outfits hold protest march on Sunday. Pic/Shadab Khan
Activists of right-wing organisations took out a massive rally in central Mumbai on Sunday against 'love jihad' and demanded anti-conversion laws and a crackdown on alleged land grabbing in the name of religion.
Leaders and workers of right-wing outfits such as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) marched in the rally.
Hindu Jan Akrosh Morcha, organised by Sakal Hindu Samaj, began from Shivaji Park in Dadar and culminated at Kamgar Maidan in Parel, covering a distance of more than 4 km.
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Activists shouted slogans against "love jihad", and demanded anti-conversion laws and a crackdown on land grabbing in the name of religion.
Several leaders and MLAs of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and those of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena faction also participated in the rally.
Police personnel were deployed along the route of the march to prevent any untoward incident.
The Mumbai Police had on Saturday issued a traffic notification for the morcha. The police in a traffic notification said that on January 29, 2023 between 09-00 hrs 14-00 hrs, Sakal Hindu Samaj has organised a morcha from Shivaji Park to Maharashtra Rajya Kamgar Kalyan Mandal, Dadar (West), Mumbai. Due to which the traffic movement will be affected on the routes of morcha.
Some routes were diverted for vehicular traffic. No parking was also announced on the roads around the morcha route.
(with PTI inputs)
