Bengaluru (Karnataka): Karnataka Home minister Araga Jnanendra said during the assembly session that conversion from one religion to another by luring is a crime and the government is planning to bring out a strict law against religious conversion. The assembly discussed in detail the religious conversion happening in the state.
BJP MLA Goolihatti Shekhar brought the subject for discussion during the zero hour. "Conversion from one religion to another is very widespread. There are 10,000 to 20,000 converts in my constituency. My mother was also converted. Christian missionaries target gullible people and brainwash them. My mother was one among them. Christian songs are my mother's mobile ring tone and there is no worship of Hindu deities in our house. This is very embarrassing," Shekhar said.
The MLA added that Dalits, backward classes, Muslims are being converted. Let anyone convert but the reservation meant for SC/ST should be forgone when they convert to Christianity. He demanded strict action against religious conversion.
BJP MLA K G Bopaiah also added his voice to this. He demanded the UP model law should be implemented in Karnataka. Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri said that "I spoke about this when Mallikarjun Kharge was the Home Minister. There is a law on it in another state. Making such law in our state is more useful"