Hubballi, June 1 -- Sri Ram Sene chief Pramod Muthalik has claimed that "every girl now carries a trishul in her bag" as a symbolic measure to resist what he described as Love Jihad-a term used by some groups to allege coercive interfaith relationships leading to religious conversion.
Speaking at an event in Hubballi marking the first anniversary of the helpline Sahaya Vani, Muthalik said the service had received 6,158 calls over the past year, involving cases where young women were allegedly being misled or coerced in the name of love. "We have been able to intervene in 93 per cent of these cases and prevent the girls from falling into such traps," he told reporters in a press meet.
Muthalik also alleged that some of the cases involved a...