What Rahul Kanwal's heated discussion with Hindu Yuva Vahini chief on live TV revealed

They drag couples out of bedrooms, slap around young men from a particular community, indulge in moral policing and want Hindu women to be aware of what they peddle as "love jihad". But when asked to explain as to why they do what they do, they resort to more shrillness and verbal violence.

Welcome to the peculiarly twisted world of the Hindu Yuva Vahini, a “social, cultural and nationalist group” of young people floated by UP chief minister and Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adityanath, no less. (The same group that has long had the steerage of Adityanath, now richly rewarded for his illustrious past spotting love jihad in UP, with the chief ministership no less. But Vahini, despite their leader's stellar ascent to the top post in India's most populous and one of its biggest states, has decided to stick to old ways that always reaped political rewards.)

Their latest claim to fame is violating the privacy of a couple in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, when they barged into the latter's bedroom armed with a cameraphone and assaulted the man for being a Muslim.

Nagendra Singh Tomar, the chief of HYV (love, love the acronym, don't we?), was asked to present the why of the moral crusades that seem to throb with a particularly virulent new disease: affliction when infected by the Human Youth-degeneracy Virus.

Mr Tomar had a seriously strong interviewer: Rahul Kanwal, India Today TV's managing editor and known for his hard-hitting questions to all and sundry, was determined to seek a worthwhile explanation from the HYV leader.

Yet Tomar even "denied that it is his group that entered the couple's bedroom and said he only acted on a complaint".

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But, is it really possible to extract logical reasoning from those who trade in the violence of illogic? The discussion, particularly the faux difference between what Tomar dubs "love jihad" and young love, boundless, border-crossing, beautiful and bold love, is so tenuous that it is seriously hazardous to witness Tomar rationalise the HYV brigade's jihad against love.

When Kanwal asked why were the HYV type invading citizens' bedrooms, Tomar went into a tangent about Hindu women being dissuaded and falsely targeted by men from THE OTHER religious community. For Tomar, inter-religious love is just a pretext for conversion, the ultimate aim.

So, is SRK also guilty of love jihad? And Aamir Khan too? And Saif Ali Khan as well?

Well, Tomar has the answer.

The social cleansing project of HYV is really a precursor to much more gruesome violence waiting in the wings. What's obscenity for one person is the another's oxygen of liberty to be.

Who are HYV and Tomar to dictate terms to us on how we should live and whom? If love, and food, and intellectual freedoms become subservient to a political project of religious supremacy, then what's the point of being young and being in love?

Tomar had to be asked to leave the newsroom by an anchor as seasoned as Rahul Kanwal.

If less than an hour of Tomar can be so toxic for even a media house which runs on fierce debate among opposed ideologues and political representatives, what is the impact of Tomar and his ilk on the ordinary Indian, who is slightly more prone to being swayed one way or another, slightly less immune to the intellectual and religious fraud perpetrated in the name of Hindu love and purity?

That's something to ponder on.