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`Law soon against conversion'

By Our Special Correspondent

JAIPUR, FEB. 23. Rajasthan would soon have a law against religious conversions. A bill to this effort would soon be introduced in the State Assembly, according to the Home Minister, Gulab Chand Kataria. "Nobody has a right to make conversions in this State,'' Mr.Kataria said while making a statement in the Assembly today during a discussion on the recent attack on Christians in Kota.

"There are no two opinions on everybody's right to practice his religion but when it comes to conversions of poor and illiterate persons, carried out with the help of allurements and money, we will not let it happen,'' Mr.Kataria said. "There is resentment in the public here that poor people are lured by money and other temptations to convert,'' he noted.

Mr.Kataria said the people who were sent back from the Kota railway station last weekend were tribals brought for the purpose of conversions. "If they had been only Christians there was no problem with us,'' he said and added: "It was our magnanimity that we let them go after verification.''

The Minister also said 100 foreigners of whom 95 were from the United States too have reached Kota to attend the programme. "We will not allow them to leave their hotels as they have come on tourist visas,'' he told the Rajasthan Assembly.

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