The Bjp Latest English news | The Bjp Online News in English at Lokmattimes.com

Bengaluru, June 15 The Congress-led government in Karnataka on Thursday announced to amend the Anti-Conversion Law.The announcement was made after the cabinet meeting in Vidhana Soudha. Karnataka Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H.K. Patil said the Cabinet has decided to amend the Anti-Conversion Law."All the aspects introduced by the previous BJP government would be dropped. The act will be taken up for amendment in the Assembly session, scheduled to be held in July," Patil said.The BJP has imposed stringent conditions on religious conversions. It had also prescribed stringent punishment for the offence.Patil said the government would cancel the Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021 and introduce the the Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2023.When asked about whether the previous bill is repealed, Patil said it is to undo the 2022 amendment. "It is to repeal the changes made to the law by the previous government," he said.In the Congress' poll manifesto, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar had promised to repeal all the acts enacted by the BJP government once the party comes to power in the state.Reacting to the development, National President of BJP Yuva Morcha Tejasvi Surya, the MP from Bengaluru South, said "the Congress government in Karnataka is fulfilling the PFI's agenda"."By deciding to repeal the anti-conversion law, the Congress government is clearly going against the Constitution and the judgments of the Supreme Court that clearly prohibit fraudulent religious conversions. A sad day for Karnataka, indeed," he said.The BJP government has passed the controversial Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021 popularly known as Anti-Conversion bill in the state was passed in the Legislative Assembly in Suvarna Vidhana Soudha at Belagavi on December 21, 2021.Under the act, all legal entities, educational institutions, orphanages, old age homes, hospitals, religious missionaries, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) were brought under the purview of institutions.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

The Bjp, NewsFOLLOW

The bjp, Latest News

New Delhi, June 16 BJP national president J. P. Nadda has hauled up party MPs for not showing ... ...

Patna, June 16 Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said he suspected his former ally Hindustani Awam ... ...

Imphal, June 16 Union Minister of State for External Affairs Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, whose house in Imphal was ... ...

Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 16 : Coming out hard against the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)-led government in Tamil ... ...

Imphal, June 15 Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Thursday said that infiltrators from across the border ... ...

New Delhi [India], June 15 : K Laxman, National President of BJP Other Backward Class (OBC) Morcha on Thursday ... ...

New Delhi, June 15 Several students of a private coaching institute in Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar area had a ... ...

Bengaluru, June 15 The Congress-led government in Karnataka on Thursday announced to amend the Anti-Conversion Law. The announcement ... ...