Bengaluru: The state of Karnataka is about to pass a bill prohibiting religious conversions. Basavaraj Bommai, the state's chief minister, announced on Friday that the state will soon pass an anti-religious conversion law.

If the ruling BJP government in Karnataka does not implement a law against forced conversions, Sri Ram Sena has threatened to organise a nationwide movement. According to BJP sources, the government is planning to pass legislation in this regard, and the bill will be introduced at the upcoming winter session in Suvarna Soudha in Belagavi next month. The state administration has being urged to adopt the ordinance by seers of various mutts.

All Hindu religious seers in Karnataka will launch an agitation if the state government fails to enact the law, according to Sri Ram Sena Chief Pramod Muthalik, who met with Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday. "Religious conversions have been going place since the British time," says Muthalik.

The demand was met with enthusiasm by Chief Minister Bommai, who stated: "The Karnataka government is already looking into the legislation that have been passed in other states in this area. Karnataka would shortly follow suit and release its own act." He went on to say that the Constitution expressly prohibits conversions by force or persuasion. "I have also spoken out against this in the past," he insisted. BJP MLA Goolihatti Shekar of Hosadurga raised the subject of religious conversions during the Monsoon session.

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