Forced Religious Conversions Are Wrong, Law Should Be Made: Kejriwal

Mumbai: Delhi CM and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday supported a law against religious conversions.

“Religion is a private matter. Everybody has the right to worship a God. A law should definitely be made against religious conversions but nobody should be wrongly harassed through this. Conversions done by scaring them is wrong,” Kejriwal said in Punjab’s Jalandhar.

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Several BJP-ruled states, including Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, have brought in laws to control forced conversions over the years.

Several other BJP-ruled states, including Haryana and Assam, are also considering bringing in a similar law to prevent such conversions.

Last year, the central government, while answering a question in the Lok Sabha, said it had no plans to enact a central anti-conversion law to prevent inter-religious marriages in the country. State Governments.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said prevention, detection, registration, investigation and prosecution of crimes related to conversion are primarily the concerns of the state governments.

Polling in Punjab will be held in a single phase on February 20 and the counting of votes will take place on March 10.

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