A senior officer-bearer of the BJP has been accused of ‘love jihad’ and expelled after his son married a local Buddhist girl in Ladakh, triggering massive protests from local Buddhists in Leh for the past two months.
The Ladakh Buddhist Association (LBA) on Wednesday organised a rally and ensured a shutdown in Leh, to press the demand to return the girl to her family. The protesters were carrying banners with slogans like ‘Stop Love Jihad’.
Manzoor Ahmad, 39, who runs a travel agency in Leh, in July disclosed to have married a local Buddhist girl in 2011 and also managed a court marriage this year. However, the family of the girl accused the youth of “kidnapping” and “elopement”. The couple, granted police protection by the court, remains “untraced” for the families.
