Days after State Home Minister Araga Jnanendra told the legislative assembly that the government was reflecting on enacting a law to regulate religious conversion, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday said that the state was seriously considering a law to prevent religious conversions either by force or inducement.
Responding to media queries, he said that conversions via force or by inducements were illegal. “I have directed district administrations to not allow such conversions as it was against the law,” he said.
As several such incidents are reported, the government is seriously considering a law against religious conversions by force or by luring people through various means, he said.
Home Minister Araga Jnanendra made a similar announcement at the Legislative Assembly, after sitting BJP MLA Goolihatti Shekar alleged his mother had converted to Christianity accusing her of falling prey to ‘inducement’.
Last year, Former Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa had formally announced that the government would take strong measures to put an end to religious conversion in the name of love and marriage.
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Rushda Fathima Khan is the Staff Reporter for The Cognate.
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