Overview
- Posters across Patna attributed to the Hindu Shivbhawani Sena warn couples with the slogan “Jahan milenge babu-sona, tod denge kona-kona,” threatening physical reprisals.
- Hindu Shivbhawani Sena’s leader Luv Kumar Singh reiterated in a video that volunteers would monitor public places from Chocolate Day through February 14 and intervene against what they call obscenity, including using sticks or rods.
- Patna SSP Kartikeya K Sharma said additional personnel are deployed at key locations and promised strict action against harassment, violence or any disruption of public order.
- Some posters invoke the Pulwama terror attack anniversary and urge tributes to soldiers in place of Valentine’s celebrations, reflecting the group’s cultural and communal framing.
- Opposition figures from the RJD condemned the warnings as spreading hatred, and similar anti‑Valentine campaigns were reported in Madhya Pradesh, while in Muzaffarnagar the Kranti Sena held a ‘lathi poojan’ and threatened action against couples on February 14.