Union Minister in an interview to ANI said he doesn't support the Anti- Conversion Law
The Union Minister of the country Rajnath Singh has shared his views on the controversial "Love Jihad" law. He aforementioned that he doesn't support the mass conversion for wedding and questioned why it was needed. The minister was asked to answer on the alleged misuse of the anti-conversion law enacted by the Uttar Pradesh government. Love Jihad has created a huge controversy, as Uttar Pradesh is one amongst the states led by the BJP Govt. that created new laws to prevent forceful religious conversions and what the rightist calls "love jihad"
In an exclusive interview to ANI the Union Minister Mr Rajnath Singh aforementioned that "I want to ask why there ought to be a conversion. The follow of mass conversions ought to stop." He conjointly supplemental that "As way as I do know, within the Muslim religion, one cannot marry somebody from another faith. I don't approve of conversion for the wedding."
The parliamentary minister has explained the distinction between a 'Natural Marriage' and a 'Forceful Conversion Marriage'. "In several cases, you may have seen that the religious conversion is done forcefully and generally, it's done below greed. Natural wedding and forceful conversion for wedding features a massive distinction and I suppose governments that created these laws have thought of all these things," Mr Singh aforementioned. The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of religion Ordinance, 2020, prohibits any conversion by "misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement, or by any dishonourable means or by a wedding."
The law considerably conjointly says that marriages that is done "For the sole purpose of unlawful conversion or vice versa" wouldn't be allowed.
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