BJP members plan for anti-conversion bill in Parliamen
BJP's Lok Sabha member Yogi Adityanath and Rajya Sabha member Tarun Vijay will introduce the bill in respective houses.
New Delhi (UCAN): Two BJP members plan to introduce private member bills in both houses of parliament to stop religious conversions and go for a debate on the issue in next session of parliament.
BJP parliamentarians Yogi Adityanath will introduce it in Lok Sabha and Tarun Vijay will do so in Rajya Sabha, it was announced last Friday during a conference on ‘Dharmantaran Rashtranataran Hai,’ the Sunday Express reported.
The conference was organized at the Gorakhnath Temple in Gorakhpur, to observe the death anniversaries of former chief priests of temple — Mahant Digvijay Nath and Mahant Avaidyanath.
Tarun Vijay told Sunday Express while he will present the Bill in Rajya Sabha, "Yogi Adityanath will do the same in the Lok Sabha. Debates will be held on the issue in the Parliament on the lines of Thomas Jefferson’s famous Freedom of Religion Act-1786.”
He said many MPs from other parties have shown interest in the bill to stop converisons. "I am trying to build an all-party consensus by holding discussions with them,” Vijay said while refusing to reveal names of the “like-minded” MPs.
“My line of argument is that religion must remain a matter of personal choice. But in India, it has become a political tool in the hands of foreign powers, who are targeting Hindus to fragment our nation again on communal lines. This has to be resisted in national interest and in the interest of all minorities in India,” he added.
Religious conversion is a planned conspiracy, Vijay said. “Such areas get cut off from the country and Hindus are reduced to a minority… Jammu & Kashmir is an example where Hindus were forced to leave their houses… anti-national and separatists forces are active there…” Hindu majority is an essential guarantee for the flowering of democracy, constitutionalism and pluralism, he claimed.
While addressing the conference, Yogi Adityanath said religious conversion was an “anti-national act” and it must be stopped. “An aggressive campaign is required for ghar wapsi of those Hindus, who had converted to other religions in the past,” he added.
The recent Census data shows that in India, Hindus population has first time gone below 80 per cent.. this was an alarming situation…while adding that Hindus cannot leave it only to the government to maintain national unity and prevent religious conversion but should themselves take initiatives.
Source: Indian Express
