‘Justice for Lavanya’ takes nationwide centerstage: BJP calls for CBI enquiry, bats for legislation in opposition to forceful conversions in Tamil Nadu

The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) on Thursday held a press convention discussing the burning challenge of 17-year-old Lavanya’s suicide over the forceful conversion to Christianity in Tamil Nadu. In the presser, BJP Mahila Morcha President and MLA from Tamil Nadu Vanathi Srinivasan said that the state BJP unit just isn’t content material the place the probe is headed and has demanded a CBI investigation into the matter.

Since the unlucky incident has taken place, the non secular angle concerned within the concentrating on of Lavanya, which in the end led to her dying has been conveniently ignored within the mainstream narratives in Tamil Nadu. Besides the media downplaying the missionary connotations within the case, it was additionally the administration that began harassing the person who took the video of Lavanya’s dying declaration.
However, the Madras High court docket had ordered the Tamil Nadu cops to ‘conduct themselves appropriately’ and handed an interim order for probing the trigger behind Lavanya’s suicide and never the person who recorded her allegations. Since then, ‘Justice for Lavanya’ has created a large outrage in Tamil Nadu politics with state BJP President Okay Annamalai main the trigger.
The BJP underneath the management of @annamalai_k ups the ante in Chennai, calls for justice for Lavanya, the 17 yr outdated who dedicated suicide underneath strain from her faculty to embrace Christianity.The DMK Govt, which was denying the conversion angle has been pressured to acknowledge… pic.twitter.com/S6b2Kv4l97— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) January 25, 2022
On Thursday, In a press convention held at BJP Headquarters in Delhi, BJP MLA Vanathi Srinivasan explicitly expressed that the state BJP unit doesn’t have any religion within the investigation by the police and demanded that it must be handed over to the CBI. She added, “The Education Minister has (declared) that the education ministry would also conduct an enquiry, in which he has not openly discussed the conversion angle involved. This again raises doubts about how the state government is dealing in this case.”
On behalf of her get together, she stated that the BJP is strongly apprehending this doubt and thus has come to a conclusion {that a} truthful investigation wouldn’t be performed by the TN authorities. She additionally careworn upon giving compensation to the sufferer’s household.
Furthermore, Srinivasan emphasizes the case for an act ‘to prevent the forceful conversions in the state of Tamil Nadu’ earlier than the Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin. A nationwide committee of 4 BJP Mahila Morcha members has been fashioned, which is tasked to fulfill the sufferer’s household and thence put together a report on the case, which can be submitted to BJP National President JP Nadda. The committee consists of BJP chief Sandhya Rai, MP from Madhya Pradesh, Vijayashanti from Telangana, BJP Maharashtra state VP Chitra Wagh and BJP chief Geetha Vivekananda from Karnataka.
Thanks Sh @JPNadda ji for constituting the staff for #Justiceforlavanaya .சிறுமி லாவண்யா மரணம் தொடர்பாக 4 பேர் கொண்ட குழுவினை @BJP4India தேசியத்தலைவர் அறிவித்துள்ளார். pic.twitter.com/WxcySDUSQz— Vanathi Srinivasan (@VanathiBJP) January 27, 2022
While talking on the press convention BJP spokesperson added, “When parents of the victim are crying for Justice in front of the Government of Tamil Nadu, those who fight for so-called women empowerment are absent” He additionally took a jibe on the Congress with out taking the get together’s identify over giving ‘Ladki hoon Lad Sakti hoon’ slogans reminding its involvement within the state authorities as an ally.
The concern over the search for Justice has made many rounds on social media. Many activists, politicians and intellectuals have demanded a good probe within the case and justice for the harmless 17-year-old woman who died by a suicide try. With the press convention of BJP now demanding CBI enquiry, the problem has reached the nationwide centre stage.