by Ricky anand
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai Tuesday stated the nation authorities is making plans to introduce a regulation to prohibit forceful spiritual conversions within the nation. Speaking to reporters, he stated, “Forceful conversions have turn out to be rampant. I actually have directed the district administrations to now no longer permit any spiritual conversion via inducement or through pressure as they’re illegal.”
He changed into responding to a query on alleged incidents of spiritual conversions in Kalaburagi and Byadarahalli withinside the nation. Last week, nation Home Minister Araga Jnanendra informed the legislative meeting that the authorities is mulling a regulation to adjust spiritual conversion as Hosadurga BJP MLA Goolihatti Shekhar had claimed that spiritual conversions had been “rampant” throughout the nation. The MLA withinside the meeting had additionally stated 15,000 to 20,000 humans, inclusive of his very own mother, had been transformed to Christianity in his constituency.
“The issue (of spiritual conversions) has come to the authorities’s notice. Converting humans from one faith to any other through inducing them is a punishable offense. We will preserve a strict vigil on such activities. There is a extensive community running on spiritual conversions throughout the country,” Jnanendra had stated in his respond withinside the Assembly. Another senior BJP MLA K G Bopaiah had additionally stated withinside the meeting that systematically, such spiritual conversions are being done through overseas missionaries via a few establishments here.
“Religious conversions were managed in Uttar Pradesh via a regulation and it will likely be the proper step in any other case it’s going to cause disturbance of peace in society. We should take robust steps because it will have an effect on society,” he stated. Nagthan MLA Devanand Fulasing Chavan stated Vijayapura is domestic to 3.five lakh humans belonging to the Banjara community. “Churches are developing there and those are being transformed, that is main to the department of the community.
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