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Representational PhotoHyderabad: Protesting against Valentine’s Day celebrations, activists of rightwing group Bajrang Dal on Thursday forcibly married off a young couple at a park on the outskirts of Hyderabad. In Vijayawada in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, VHP and Bajrang Dal activists held a protest at Rajiv Gandhi Park. Workers of Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and other rightwing groups staged protests in various parts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The leaders of the organizations said celebrating Valentine’s Day was against India’s culture. The activists found a student couple in a park and made the boy tie what appears like ‘mangalsutra’ to the girl..