Nothing wrong in re-converting to Hinduism willingly: Yogi
10 years, 3 months ago

Nothing wrong in re-converting to Hinduism willingly: Yogi

India TV News  

Nothing wrong in re-converting to Hinduism willingly: Yogi Hajipur : Amidst raging controversy over alleged conversion in Agra, firebrand BJP MP Yogi Adityanath today said that there was nothing wrong if people re-convert to Hinduism if they are doing it willingly.“There is nothing Hajipur : Amidst raging controversy over alleged conversion in Agra, firebrand BJP MP Yogi Adityanath today said that there was nothing wrong if people re-convert to Hinduism if they are doing it willingly. “There is nothing wrong in ‘ghar vapasi' if one does it out of free will. The MP from Gorakhpur described those opposing ‘homecoming' of non-Hindus as ‘pseudo-seculars' and asked them to explain their stand “on the conversion of Hindus into other faiths in the Northeast”. “Those opposing ‘homecoming' of non-Hindus should first oppose conversion of Hindus into other faiths in the Northeast,” he demanded.

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Why anti-conversion bill in Rajasthan is being seen as govt toeing BJP line
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Why anti-conversion bill in Rajasthan is being seen as govt toeing BJP line

India Today  

The Bhajan Lal Sharma government in Rajasthan has presented an anti-conversion bill in the ongoing budget session of the legislative assembly. The bill, introduced by state health minister Gajendra Singh Khimswar, provides for up to 10 years’ imprisonment for those forcing anyone to convert or conducting mass conversions. While the Left parties consider tribal people as having an independent religion, …

Haryana: Bajrang Dal, VHP disrupt Christian 'prayer meet' in Ambala, Haryana, allege deceitful conversion of scheduled caste Hindus
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Haryana: Bajrang Dal, VHP disrupt Christian 'prayer meet' in Ambala, Haryana, allege deceitful conversion of scheduled caste Hindus

Op India  

On Monday, 30th December, several Hindu individuals associated with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal filed a police complaint against some Christians in Barnala village of Haryana’s Ambala district. One of the Bajrang Dal activists talked to the media and confirmed that illegal conversion of Hindus had been taking place in the Barnala village for a very long time. …

New UP conversion law reinforces curtailment of citizens’ rights
7 months, 2 weeks ago

New UP conversion law reinforces curtailment of citizens’ rights

Hindustan Times  

Uttar Pradesh, no stranger to draconian state action against the citizenry, just got a harsher upgrade on a law that was already skating on the thin ice of unconstitutionality. Article 25 in Part III of the Constitution, which delineates ‘Fundamental Rights’, provides that ‘… all persons are equally entitled to freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practice …

Yogi govt tables new anti-conversion bill with life term provision
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Yogi govt tables new anti-conversion bill with life term provision

Hindustan Times  

The Yogi Adityanath government on Monday tabled the Uttar Pradesh Unlawful Conversion of Religion Bill 2024 to make stricter and non-bailable provisions, increase the punishment and fine under the existing law to check unlawful religious conversions in Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath with deputy CM Brajesh Pathak and Speaker Satish Mahana arrives to attend the Monsoon session of …

New BJP govt in Rajasthan to introduce fresh law on religious conversion
9 months, 1 week ago

New BJP govt in Rajasthan to introduce fresh law on religious conversion

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi Indicating a significant policy shift, the newly formed Bharatiya Janata Party government in Rajasthan has announced its intention to introduce fresh legislation on religious conversion. The Bhajan Lal Sharma-led government filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, stating that while the state currently lacks specific legislation on religious conversion, it is actively working on drafting a …

Political Storm Over Religious Conversions: Does India Need a National Law? - News18
1 year, 9 months ago

Political Storm Over Religious Conversions: Does India Need a National Law? - News18

News 18  

The possible repeal of the Karnataka Freedom of Religion Act, 2021, enacted under the Basavaraj Bommai-led BJP government has created a political storm. Amid the sharp political narrative between the Congress and BJP, the intricate issue of religious conversions in India has never found the serious attention it deserves. The absence of empirical data or any study on religious conversions, …

Anti-Conversion Laws Are Coming For Political Reasons Than Actual Reasons: Ex-Judge Justice Deepak Gupta | Transcript Of Interview
2 years, 3 months ago

Anti-Conversion Laws Are Coming For Political Reasons Than Actual Reasons: Ex-Judge Justice Deepak Gupta | Transcript Of Interview

Live Law  

This is the full transcript of the interview of former Supreme Court judge Justice Deepak Gupta with Manu Sebastian, Managing Editor of LiveLaw, on the topic of anti-conversion laws. State has no business to know if a person has changed religion Mr. Manu Sebastian : "An important news of this week is the Supreme Court hearing a PIL which seeks …

Religious Conversions Taking Place at Great Speed in Bihar: Giriraj
2 years, 3 months ago

Religious Conversions Taking Place at Great Speed in Bihar: Giriraj

News 18  

Union minister Giriraj Singh on Tuesday claimed religious conversions were taking place at a great speed in Bihar with the Mahagathbandhan government “concerned only about its Muslim vote bank”. The firebrand BJP leader also reiterated that there was a need for a strong anti-conversion law, and sneered at Bharat Jodo Yatra of Rahul Gandhi whom he accused of “trying to …

‘Embracing Buddhism is not conversion,’ says VHP, calls AAP’s Rajendra Pal Gautam ‘anti-Dalit jihad supporter’
2 years, 5 months ago

‘Embracing Buddhism is not conversion,’ says VHP, calls AAP’s Rajendra Pal Gautam ‘anti-Dalit jihad supporter’

Firstpost  

While the Bharatiya Janata Party took strong exception to the event and called Gautam, AAP and Arvind Kejriwal ‘anti-Hindu’, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad said it did not have a problem with event and people having embraced Buddhism New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party MLA and Delhi Cabinet minister Rajendra Pal Gautam stirred a hornet’s nest last Wednesday when he attended a …

SC Lawyer & BJP’s Ashwini Upadhyay Urges Centre to Bring Tough Laws to Stop Forceful Religious Conversions
2 years, 6 months ago

SC Lawyer & BJP’s Ashwini Upadhyay Urges Centre to Bring Tough Laws to Stop Forceful Religious Conversions

News 18  

Supreme Court lawyer and former Delhi BJP spokesperson Ashwini Upadhyay has appealed for tough law at the Centre to deal with matters relating to marriage and forceful religious conversions. In a letter to home minister Amit Shah and law minister Kiren Rijiju on August 31, Upadhyay argued that the right to change religion is “inherent” in the right to freedom …

BJP’s Giriraj Singh favours anti-conversion law, Rajya Sabha MP Rakesh Sinha seeks ‘global minority’ status for Hindus
2 years, 9 months ago

BJP’s Giriraj Singh favours anti-conversion law, Rajya Sabha MP Rakesh Sinha seeks ‘global minority’ status for Hindus

The Hindu  

Union minister Giriraj Singh on June 10 asserted that there was a need for an anti-conversion law that was applicable to the entire country. During a ‘Bharat bandh’ called by the BJP, Mr. Singh, in addition to many BJP leaders, was booked for blocking railway traffic. I have come here to give my statement,” said Mr. Singh who was accompanied …

No need for any anti-conversion law in Bihar: Nitish
2 years, 9 months ago

No need for any anti-conversion law in Bihar: Nitish

The Hindu  

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said there was no need for any anti-conversion law in Bihar, where members of different religious communities live in peace and harmony. So there is no need for any such move here,” Mr. Kumar said, when mediapersons asked him about the need for an anti-conversion law, on the sidelines of a government function …

Gujarat BJP MP says tribals who have converted to other religions should not get ST benefits
2 years, 11 months ago

Gujarat BJP MP says tribals who have converted to other religions should not get ST benefits

Op India  

On Sunday, BJP MP Mansukhbhai Vasava addressed a public gathering during which he demanded the delisting of converted tribals from benefits made available to the Scheduled Tribes community. While slamming the forced conversions of Hindus, the tribal leader said, “These elements who break Hindu dharma and who are into religious conversion activities, if they don’t in a simple manner, then …

Targeting minorities: BJP government's anti-conversion Bill in Haryana
2 years, 11 months ago

Targeting minorities: BJP government's anti-conversion Bill in Haryana

The Hindu  

ON February 8, the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Haryana approved the draft Haryana Prevention of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Bill, 2022, thereby joining the list of BJP-ruled States that have enacted similar laws. The draft Bill, like the anti-conversion laws in other BJP-ruled States such as Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, claims to address forcible …

212 tribal families in MP ‘returned’ to Hinduism from Christianity, claims VHP
3 years, 1 month ago

212 tribal families in MP ‘returned’ to Hinduism from Christianity, claims VHP

Hindustan Times  

BHOPAL: Vishwa Hindu Parishad functionary Azad Prem Singh Damor on Thursday claimed that over 300 people belonging to 212 tribal families “returned to Hinduism from Christianity” at Full Gawdi village in Madhya Pradesh’s Jhabua district. “.we decided to follow our original religion.” Madhya Pradesh Christian Dioceses public relations officer Maria Stephen said VHP and other organisations have realised their propaganda …

Religious conversions happen when people get influenced, not by fear of sword: Ghulam Nabi Azad
3 years, 3 months ago

Religious conversions happen when people get influenced, not by fear of sword: Ghulam Nabi Azad

India TV News  

Religious conversions happen when people get influenced, not by fear of sword: Ghulam Nabi Azad His statement comes after Opposition in Karnataka alleged that the anti-conversion bill is being proposed in the state to "target a particular religion." Over the ongoing debate on the anti-conversion bills being introduced in states, senior Congress leader and former chief minister of the erstwhile …

Karnataka government plans to introduce anti-conversion law
3 years, 6 months ago

Karnataka government plans to introduce anti-conversion law

The Hindu  

Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra stated in the Legislative Assembly on September 21 that the government was considering introducing an anti-conversion law to prevent forced and inducement-based religious conversions. Converting someone by offering inducements is against the law as well and I have given strict instructions to the police to take action where necessary,” Jnanendra said. The Home Minister said: …

India’s ‘love jihad’ laws: Another attempt to subjugate Muslims
4 years, 2 months ago

India’s ‘love jihad’ laws: Another attempt to subjugate Muslims

Al Jazeera  

The new anti-conversion laws not only remove agency from women, but also put a target on the backs of innocent Muslim men and boys. On January 6, the Supreme Court of India declined to stay controversial laws recently enacted in several states to tackle “love jihad” – a baseless conspiracy theory accusing Muslim men of luring Hindu women into marriage …

'I Personally Don't Approve of Conversions': Rajnath Singh on Why UP, MP 'Love Jihad' Law is Needed
4 years, 2 months ago

'I Personally Don't Approve of Conversions': Rajnath Singh on Why UP, MP 'Love Jihad' Law is Needed

News 18  

Lending his support to the ‘love jihad’ law, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said that those governments who have passed the ordinances have considered misdoings like “mass, forceful conversion for marriage” as “Muslims can’t marry someone from another faith”. The UP government has been given a letter — signed by 104 former IAS officers, including former National Security Adviser …

Another BJP-governed Indian state plans anti-conversion law
4 years, 3 months ago

Another BJP-governed Indian state plans anti-conversion law

Al Jazeera  

The government in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has approved a bill to prevent “forceful” religious conversions, a legislation critics say is aimed at curbing interfaith marriages. Nowhere is the BJP’s alleged mission of “Hindutva” – Hindu hegemony – more in evidence than in Uttar Pradesh, a vast and economically backward state of 200 million people. While there …

Anti-conversion law is full of doubts and apprehensions: Mayawati
4 years, 3 months ago

Anti-conversion law is full of doubts and apprehensions: Mayawati

Live Mint  

BSP supremo Mayawati asked the Uttar Pradesh government to reconsider the new anti-conversion law, saying it is full of "doubts and apprehensions". Her remarks come after Uttar Pradesh registered its first case under the new law in Bareilly district based on a complaint from the father of a young woman. Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel on Saturday gave assent to …

UP Governor Anandiben Patel gives assent to ordinance on ’unlawful conversion’
4 years, 3 months ago

UP Governor Anandiben Patel gives assent to ordinance on ’unlawful conversion’

Live Mint  

The Uttar Pradesh ordinance on unlawful conversion was promulgated after the approval of state Governor Anandiben Patel on Saturday. Governor Patel today gave assent to an ordinance against forcible or "dishonest" religious conversions. CM Adityanath had earlier this week approved the draft ordinance to curb forcible or "dishonest" religious conversions including those for the sake of marriage, which could land …

Indian state criminalises religious conversions by marriage
4 years, 4 months ago

Indian state criminalises religious conversions by marriage

Al Jazeera  

The decree by Uttar Pradesh state lays out up to 10 years’ prison term following a campaign by Modi’s BJP against interfaith marriages. The party describes such marriages as “love jihad”, an unproven conspiracy theory used by its leaders and Hindu far-right groups to accuse Muslim men of converting Hindu women by marriage. ‘Encroachment into the right to freedom of …

Hindus don’t always have equality with minorities
10 years ago

Hindus don’t always have equality with minorities

Live Mint  

An article written by former police officer Julio Ribeiro, initially headlined I am on a hit list, has ignited a debate concerning India’s Christians and their security under the Narendra Modi government. Even today, top ranked institutions like St Stephen’s College, Christian Medical College in Vellore, St Xavier’s College and countless missionary schools across India clearly declare themselves to be …

BJP's loose cannon Yogi Adityanath says ghar vapasi to continue | IndiaTV NEws
10 years, 1 month ago

BJP's loose cannon Yogi Adityanath says ghar vapasi to continue | IndiaTV NEws

India TV News  

Rohtak: Firebrand BJP MP Yogi Adityanath has said VHP's ‘Ghar Vapasi' programme will continue unless conversions are banned and that India's problem was “not poverty” but “vote bank politics fuelled by jihadi fervour”. If conversions continue, I feel ‘Ghar Vapasi' programme will continue,” Aditynath, who is BJP's Hindutva face, said at a meet organised by Vishwa Hindu Parishad yesterday. The …

Re-conversion to continue till Centre bans the practise: VHP
10 years, 2 months ago

Re-conversion to continue till Centre bans the practise: VHP

India TV News  

Mangaluru: VHP leader Pravin Togadia has said that religious re-conversion would continue until the Centre banned such practise. Delivering a keynote address at ‘Virat Hindu Hridaya Sangama' at Puttur near here last evening, Togadia said Hindus could no longer be silent on conversions which resulted in the “dwindling” of their population. “We want the government to either ban religious conversions …

VHP in Kerala plans to continue 'ghar wapsi' programme
10 years, 2 months ago

VHP in Kerala plans to continue 'ghar wapsi' programme

Firstpost  

Announcing plans to continue with their ‘ghar wapsi’ programme in Kerala, Vishwa Hindu Parishad today asserted that no forcible conversions were taking place here and said it would help those who wanted to embrace Hinduism. Thiruvananthapuram: Announcing plans to continue with their ‘ghar wapsi’ programme in Kerala, Vishwa Hindu Parishad today asserted that no forcible conversions were taking place here …

59 convert to Hinduism in Kerala on Christmas day
10 years, 3 months ago

59 convert to Hinduism in Kerala on Christmas day

Firstpost  

Fifty-nine people converted to Hinduism Thursday in Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy’s home district Kottayam, a day after he said there was no forced conversion in the state Kottayam general secretary V. Mohanan said what happened Thursday and last week - when 35 people became Hindus - “was not conversion, but re-conversion”. Chandy had Wednesday said Kerala has always stayed …

11 Muslims converted to Hinduism, says VHP
10 years, 3 months ago

11 Muslims converted to Hinduism, says VHP

The Hindu  

A few days after arranging the reconversion of 30 Christians, the Chengannur district unit of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Wednesday claimed to have converted 11 Muslims to Hinduism at a ceremony in Kayamkulam. The ceremony took place at Kizhavoor Yakshi Amman Temple at Varanappally from 7 a.m. for around two hours in the presence of VHP workers. VHP Chengannur …

‘The government’s intention is suspicious’
10 years, 3 months ago

‘The government’s intention is suspicious’

The Hindu  

DR ABRAHAM MAR PAULOS is the Diocesan Bishop of Delhi for the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar. Recently, he organised a colloquium of eminent academics and journalists in Delhi in the wake of increasing incidents of intolerance against religious minorities and the allegations of forcible conversions by Hindutva groups. Excerpts from an interview: Against the backdrop of the government’s …

Debating the conversion conundrum
10 years, 3 months ago

Debating the conversion conundrum

The Hindu  

Sometimes as I watch TV, I feel a sense of despair. What was interesting to notice is that the word ‘conversion’ means different things to different people; that the dictionary definition does not quite capture the contextual emotions of the word — meanings one should open up the debate to by looking at the various nuances of the word. > …

Conversion and freedom of religion
10 years, 3 months ago

Conversion and freedom of religion

The Hindu  

One of the oft-repeated theories in the wake of the general election this past May was that Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed power by presenting a single-minded commitment to developing India’s economy. Article 25 states that subject to public order, morality and health, and to the other fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution, all persons are equally entitled to “freedom …

Shiv Sena says nothing wrong with 're-conversions', supports call for Ram Temple
10 years, 3 months ago

Shiv Sena says nothing wrong with 're-conversions', supports call for Ram Temple

Firstpost  

Shiv Sena on Monday said that there’s nothing wrong with reverse conversions and flayed “those who kept mum when Hindus were converted to Muslims.” Mumbai: Shiv Sena on Monday said that there’s nothing wrong with reverse conversions and flayed “those who kept mum when Hindus were converted to Muslims.” “Till yesterday, Hindus were converted to Muslims. But now when the …

Conversion confusion continues from Bihar
10 years, 3 months ago

Conversion confusion continues from Bihar

The Hindu  

Even as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat declared on Saturday in Kolkata that those who left the Hindu fold out of allurement or coercion by others would be brought back, conflicting reports of poor Hindu families converting to Christianity continued to come in from different parts of Bihar. Officials said that eight members of poor Mahadalit caste had …

Forced into ‘homecoming’
10 years, 3 months ago

Forced into ‘homecoming’

The Hindu  

A little over 200 kilometres from New Delhi, where Parliament was frequently disrupted over the controversy around conversions, is a small cluster of 60 homes adjoining Agra’s Ved Nagar Colony. It was only after we learnt from the newspapers that our people needed protection that we got involved,” Mohammed Shamsher Khan Burkati, the member of the local Islamic seminary Tanzeem …

Caste is the constant
10 years, 3 months ago

Caste is the constant

The Hindu  

Congress MP Kodikunnil Suresh’s election in 2009 from a constituency reserved for the Scheduled Castes was challenged on the grounds that he was baptised as Christian, and therefore had no right to claim to be a Dalit. In Mr. Suresh’s case, he could establish the caste that his forbears belonged to, but after several generations or after dislocation from one’s …

RSS chief Bhagwat says conversions will continue
10 years, 3 months ago

RSS chief Bhagwat says conversions will continue

Hindustan Times  

The campaign to help people of other faiths reconvert to Hinduism will continue, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Saturday, daring political rivals to bring in a law to ban religious conversions if they wanted to stop ‘Ghar Wapsi’. Bhagwat dared those opposed to the ‘Ghar Wapsi’ campaign to bring in a federal law to stop it, echoing …

Confusion prevails over ‘conversion’ in Bhagalpur
10 years, 3 months ago

Confusion prevails over ‘conversion’ in Bhagalpur

The Hindu  

Confusion and contradiction prevailed in the reported incident of ‘conversion’ of five people to Christianity in a village in Bhagalpur district of Bihar as all of them have given a written statement to the police that “they have not been converted to any religion and still are Hindus”. “All the five who were reported to have converted to Christianity four …

Converts to Hinduism can choose caste: VHP
10 years, 3 months ago

Converts to Hinduism can choose caste: VHP

The Hindu  

Amid the ongoing controversy over ‘ghar vapsi,’ the Vishwa Hindu Parishad has claimed those who re-convert to Hinduism from Islam or Christianity will be allowed to choose a caste for themselves and will not be subject to unfair treatment. But if he or she wants a particular caste, it is made accessible to them.” A day after the planned ghar …

‘Agra conversion politically motivated’
10 years, 3 months ago

‘Agra conversion politically motivated’

The Hindu  

Labid Shafi, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, on Tuesday described the religious conversion reported recently from Agra as politically motivated. Every individual should have the right to choose any religion, he said and added “What happened in Agra was purely politically motivated.” To a question, Mr. Shafi said that for political reasons, terror attacks were being seen as handiwork of …

Conversion row BJP's bid to divert focus from key issues: Congress
10 years, 3 months ago

Conversion row BJP's bid to divert focus from key issues: Congress

India TV News  

New Delhi: Congress today claimed that the issue of conversions was “part of larger diversionary tactics” of BJP even as it attacked the saffron party for trying to shift the attention away from the fundamental issues of governance. Congress spokesperson Randip Surjewala's charge against the government came on a day when proceedings in Rajya Sabha were washed out as a …

Conversion an on-going process, will continue to happen, says Yogi Adityanath
10 years, 3 months ago

Conversion an on-going process, will continue to happen, says Yogi Adityanath

Firstpost  

Notwithstanding controversy over the conversion issue, BJP MP Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday justified such programmes saying it is an ongoing process and will continue to happen. New Delhi: Notwithstanding controversy over the conversion issue, BJP MP Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday justified such programmes saying it was an ongoing process and will continue to happen. His comments came after Prime Minister …

Togadia slams Mulayam, asks him to bring "anti-conversion" law
10 years, 3 months ago

Togadia slams Mulayam, asks him to bring "anti-conversion" law

India TV News  

Mumbai: Senior VHP leader Praveen Togadia today criticised Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav for his statement that religious conversions were not right and should be stopped. Addressing a ‘Hindu Sammelan' here to mark the golden jubilee year of VHP, Togadia, the international president of the outfit, said construction of Lord Ram's temple in Ayodhya was linked to the “honour” …

Parliament Live: Sakshi Maharaj express regret for Godse remark, Cong wants unconditional apology
10 years, 3 months ago

Parliament Live: Sakshi Maharaj express regret for Godse remark, Cong wants unconditional apology

Firstpost  

We track the latest updates on the Winter session of Parliament. Gandhiji never threatened anyone.” Forced to repeat his expression by Naidu, Sakshi Maharaj, in a reluctant tone, said: “I take back my words, I regret my remarks before this House and the nation.” 11.30 am: I take my words back, says BJP’s Sakshi Maharaj Caught in a controversy for …

Forced conversions will lead to communal tension: CPI(M)
10 years, 3 months ago

Forced conversions will lead to communal tension: CPI(M)

India TV News  

New Delhi: Condemning the conversion of a large number of Muslims in Agra, CPI today said forced conversion was a criminal offence and will lead to communal tensions across the country. “The RSS-BJP leaders have declared their intent to organise similar conversions of Muslims and Christians in Ghazipur, Aligarh and other places in Uttar Pradesh. Such type of conversions using …

Improper to ban conversion: Digvijay
10 years, 3 months ago

Improper to ban conversion: Digvijay

The Hindu  

Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Thursday slammed the government for suggesting that a legislation to ban religious conversions can be brought in if all parties agree, saying it was an infringement of fundamental rights. The Congress general secretary said it would be improper to ban conversion if any individual wanted to wilfully convert to another religion. Parliamentary Affairs Minister M …

Opposition demands govt. clarification on Agra conversion
10 years, 3 months ago

Opposition demands govt. clarification on Agra conversion

The Hindu  

The Opposition on Wednesday raised the issue of ``conversion by inducement’’ of 350 Muslims in Agra in the Rajya Sabha. Though the Congress joined the Opposition in raising the issue, the party is of the view that the conversion and other communal incidents were a bid by the Sangh Parivar to divert attention from the failure of the Modi Government. …

Religious conversion in Agra: Opposition attacks centre in Parliament
10 years, 3 months ago

Religious conversion in Agra: Opposition attacks centre in Parliament

India TV News  

Religious conversion in Agra: Opposition attacks centre in Parliament New Delhi: Opposition BSP and Congress today sought to corner the government in Rajya Sabha over the reported conversion of Muslims to Hinduism in Agra, saying changing religion by force and by allurement was illegal.The New Delhi: Opposition BSP and Congress today sought to corner the government in Rajya Sabha over …

Poor Muslims in Agra who converted will be given ration cards, says Bajrang Dal
10 years, 3 months ago

Poor Muslims in Agra who converted will be given ration cards, says Bajrang Dal

Firstpost  

A Bajrang Dal leader said Tuesday that all the 300 poor Muslims who he said had embraced Hinduism in Agra will be given ration cards they badly lacked. Agra: A Bajrang Dal leader said Tuesday that all the 300 poor Muslims who he said had embraced Hinduism in Agra will be given ration cards they badly lacked. Amid claims by …

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