Marriage For Love: Fathers Defend Children’s Inter-Faith Marriage

When Hindu right wing groups get involved, fathers of the Hindu bride and Muslim groom come to the rescue.

A still of the newly weds. (Photo: The Quint) 

Call for a bandh, violent protests and demands to cancel a wedding. For a Hindu woman and a Muslim man, their marriage became a matter of public anger.

As right wing Hindu groups in Mysuru hounded the families and the couple and called the wedding ‘love-jihaad,’ the fathers of the bride and the groom defended their children and said that the match was a ‘marriage for love’.