Creative Valentine's Day protest to moral policing

[hinduwoman]

The Hindu Mahasabha announcing that Valentine's Day is against purity of Indian culture and so any couple they find expressing affection, even on facebook, will be forcefully married off. Unfortunately for them their targets refused to take this lying down --

Someone should have reminded the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha party that they should be careful of what they ask for, because it might just come true. While their proposal of marrying off couples who indulged in public displays of affection or even on social media on Valentine's Day was bizarre enough, little did they know that many couples would actually take them up on this suggestion.

Over 18,000 people have decided to meet outside Hindu Mahasabha Bhawan in Delhi, on Valentine's Day to celebrate the occasion and help the Hindu Mahasabha volunteers with their plan, according to a Facebook event page called Shuddh Desi Romance. The invite on the page says:
All struggling lovers of the world and otherwise! Lets gather in heartfelt gratitude outside the Hindu Mahasabha's head office on Mandir Marg (how apt!) (Closest Metro: Ramakrishna Ashram Marg) this Valentine's Day for the most EPIC mass marriage ceremony Delhi will ever see!
Come along in your most colourful red wedding sarees, white dresses, suits, sherwanis and such things! Bring wacky wedding vows, bright flowers, loud dholaks, dark mehendi, band bajaas, poems, songs, dance routines..... Let's make this SERIOUS!
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On a more serious note, Lakshmi Bai added that this gathering will be a symbol of "loud protest against this intensified attack on democratic rights by right wing forces."
"This is not about defending the right to celebrate Valentine's Day, but about creatively fighting against forces that seek to undermine our rights to love, to choose, to move and to occupy public spaces," she said. "We register our protest against this politics of hate, oppression and violence -- that constructs notions of 'love-jihad', conducts forced conversions and shudikarans, threatens to force people into the patriarchal institution of marriage, launches aggressive attempts to control women and queer lives and bodies."

They did turn up as described. But apparently the 'nationalists' did not feel quiet up to the challenge of marrying them

On Saturday, scores of protestors dressed in wedding attire gathered at the Delhi office of the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha to challenge the right-wing outfit to make good on its threat to get couples married if they indulged in public displays of affection on Valentine’s Day. The couples, accompanied by a wedding band, called out for priests to marry them. However, things didn't go as planned. The police intervened and detained most of them.

We just started singing songs and shouting slogans but police started cracking down on us,” said Akhil Kumar, one of the protesters. “More than three buses of people were detained at the Parliament Street police station just for protesting and singing songs of love.”
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Even as the protests were halted, Delhi’s young people are in no mood to give up. “We will continue to come here every day until they stop forcing their notions of culture down our throats,” said Aritra Mukherjee, who was in the crowd. “We plan to be here all day until the police releases everyone.”

Last I saw on TV the police had let everyone go. The protestors were singing love songs and hugging in the police station as well.

Many homosexual couples were also present urging the Mahasabha to marry them off.

 

[dismal]

It seems to me that if you have an entity forcing people to get married about not celebrating Valentines day is low on your list of problems. The first order of business would be to run said entity out of town on a rail.

 

[hinduwoman]

They are trying to run the Mahasabha out through creative methods.

Their facebook post about what happened is absolutely hilarious:

Delhi Police stands true to it's motto: with you, always.**** After being left high and dry by the Hindu Mahasabha, who had promised to marry off interested partners, right in front of their office, stranded lovers heaved a sigh of relief when the Delhi Police eloped with them in their vans. So generous they were that they arranged for THREE buses so that all partners and baraatis could enjoy the comfort of a successful wedding. Sources suggest that Hindu Mahasabha had last minute marriage jitters, and hence put forth their most obnoxious spokesperson Swami Om, who for some reason spoke of killing kejriwal on this auspicious occasion. Sources also suggest that Chandra Prakash Kaushik ji was too shy to meet his could-have-been wife Vidhyalakshmi Kumari, despite all her beckoning.
After the police saved us from this fiasco, we were given the ample space of Parliament Street Police Station, where we sang, danced and held marriages under the benign gaze of the law. "I wanted to be a magistrate, but turned out a policeman", said one of the persons present. "So this is an occasion for me to pronounce couples married". The marriages went on till five hours, during which we were delighted to see happy smiles on the policemen's faces, as they realized this new aspect of their job-profile. The only grievance was that they didn't arrange for the food or drinks, which was understandable. We do not seek anymore than what they gave.

 

[dismal]

They are trying to run the Mahasabha out through creative methods.

Their facebook post about what happened is absolutely hilarious:

Delhi Police stands true to it's motto: with you, always.**** After being left high and dry by the Hindu Mahasabha, who had promised to marry off interested partners, right in front of their office, stranded lovers heaved a sigh of relief when the Delhi Police eloped with them in their vans. So generous they were that they arranged for THREE buses so that all partners and baraatis could enjoy the comfort of a successful wedding. Sources suggest that Hindu Mahasabha had last minute marriage jitters, and hence put forth their most obnoxious spokesperson Swami Om, who for some reason spoke of killing kejriwal on this auspicious occasion. Sources also suggest that Chandra Prakash Kaushik ji was too shy to meet his could-have-been wife Vidhyalakshmi Kumari, despite all her beckoning.
After the police saved us from this fiasco, we were given the ample space of Parliament Street Police Station, where we sang, danced and held marriages under the benign gaze of the law. "I wanted to be a magistrate, but turned out a policeman", said one of the persons present. "So this is an occasion for me to pronounce couples married". The marriages went on till five hours, during which we were delighted to see happy smiles on the policemen's faces, as they realized this new aspect of their job-profile. The only grievance was that they didn't arrange for the food or drinks, which was understandable. We do not seek anymore than what they gave.

Why creative? Why not direct?

Getting rid of these fuckors seems to be the issue.

 

[TSwizzle]

There a funny skit on youtube about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBJMrlwhUFE

 

[hinduwoman]

They are trying to run the Mahasabha out through creative methods.

Their facebook post about what happened is absolutely hilarious:

Why creative? Why not direct?

Getting rid of these fuckors seems to be the issue.

what direct method do you advocate? Beating the moral police up? This is much better and now they are so abashed we don't hear anything about such ridiculous things, at least for now.

 

[hinduwoman]

There a funny skit on youtube about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBJMrlwhUFE

Yeah it is great.
BTW for non-Indians in the scene about the man with the cap he is Arvind Kejriwal the new Chief Minister of Delhi, and the woman is Kiran Bedi who ran against him and lost.