Valentine 'police' 申し込む/申し出 roses, weddings to keep Indian couples demure

By Tony Tharakan

NEW DELHI, Feb 13 (Reuters) - 右翼 Hindus in India are 申し込む/申し出ing white roses, 解放する/自由な counselling and a chance to get married for couples caught kissing or hugging in public places on Valentine's Day.

Roving three-person teams of volunteers from the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha will fan out across India on Feb. 14, scanning parks and public spaces for couples 展示(する)ing "不適切な behaviour."

"We'll explain the meaning of love to them," said Chander Prakash Kaushik, the group's 大統領,/社長. "We are against any vulgarity, not against love."

"Suhaag raat should be in the bedroom, not on roads," he said, using the Hindi 称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 for the consummation of a marriage.

Kaushik said the Hindu Mahasabha volunteers would 分配する white roses to signify they come in peace, and then advise the couples to get married if they are really in love. Priests would at 手渡す to carry out the 儀式, if needed.

"We can't 軍隊 people in this day and age, we can only counsel them," he said.

A Delhi Police 広報担当者 said people would not be 許すd to take the 法律 into their own 手渡すs.

The Hindu Mahasabha, which is not (v)提携させる(n)支部,加入者d to the 判決,裁定 Hindu-国家主義者 Bharatiya Janata Party, is の中で groups seen as self-任命するd moral 後見人s of you nger Indians who ますます 捜し出す the 権利 to choose their own partner, 独立した・無所属 of caste and other 伝統的な 支配するs.

Public 陳列する,発揮するs of love and live-in 関係s are 見解(をとる)d as a cultural 脅し in India, where 保守的な 態度s coexist with high 率s of 暴力/激しさ against women.

Young people have 行う/開催する/段階d 集まり-kissing (選挙などの)運動をするs against moral policing.

In the run-up to Valentine's Day 週末, news 報告(する)/憶測s about the Hindu Mahasabha's 計画(する)s for the day of love 招待するd ridicule on social マスコミ, with the 支配する 傾向ing on Twitter this week.

"I love you all. Now waiting for Hindu Mahasabha to get me married to all of you," writer Durjoy Datta said on Twitter.

Students in New Delhi used Facebook to ask people to gather outside the (警察,軍隊などの)本部 of the Hindu Mahasabha in wedding finery to mock the (選挙などの)運動をする.

"Have to go to the beauty parlour!! The Big day is almost here!!" 'Laxmi Bai', one of the organisers, tweeted on Friday.

述べるing Valentine's Day as a Western 輸入する, the Hindu Mahasabha 大統領,/社長 said: "Marriage is the true 実験(する) of love." (Editing by Ruth Pitchford)

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