Two families in Maharashtra’s Vasai cancelled a wedding function after Suresh Chavhanke, editor and managing director of Sudarshan News TV channel, tweeted out a picture of the invitation alleging “love jihad”.
The wedding is interfaith and the function was scheduled for November 20, 2022.
A manager at the venue where the function was scheduled to be held told Newslaundry that the families of the bride and groom met him on Friday evening. “They were receiving calls all day and seemed disturbed,” he said, on the condition of anonymity. “They cancelled the function at my venue and I returned their deposit. It was because of the function invite that was leaked to the public.”
The venue for the function is located in Vasai.
Chavhanke, notorious for the anti-Muslim bent of his channel, tweeted the function invitation at around 10 am on Friday. He linked the wedding to the gruesome murder of Shraddha Walkar by her partner Aftab Poonawala, and included the hashtags “#LoveJihad_ActOfTerrorism” and “#LoveJihad” – a reference to the Hindutva conspiracy theory that Muslim men lure Hindu women in a concerted effort to convert them to Islam.
“The invitation to Imran and Divya’s wedding in killer Aftab’s Vasai is public,” he wrote. “After the heart-wrenching murder that involved chopping into 35 pieces, how is this happening in the same town?”
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