Lucknow: Hindu Yuva Vahini, the right-wing organisation founded by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, has put its membership drive on hold amid questions over its involvement in violence.
Mall said it is because the organisation believes that goons from non-BJP parties were posing as its members and carrying out violent attacks in the name of gau raksha and love jihad.
Mall, who is a close associate of Adityanath, admitted that the three people arrested in the Bulandshahr lynching case were its members but added the cases against them awere "fabricated". A 60-year-old Muslim man was beaten to death for allegedly helping his relative elope with a woman from another community.
Mall claimed the Vahini leadership is frequently getting complaints that people with a criminal record were trying to infiltrate the organisation.
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