Rajnath for law against conversion

December 28, 2014 03:30 am | Updated November 16, 2021 01:17 pm IST - LUCKNOW:

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday advocated framing of an anti-conversion law and urged all political parties to think about it seriously. “I think that to check conversion, an anti-conversion law has to be framed...All political parties should think over it seriously,” he said.

Talking to journalists on the sidelines of an event, Mr. Singh lamented the rigid stand of the Opposition parties on the issue and also their demand for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement on conversion.

“They should understand that statement of any Minister was the government’s side,” he added.

On reports that terrorist Dawood Ibrahim was living in Karachi in Pakistan based on tapes received from western diplomatic sources, Mr. Singh said India had repeatedly asked Pakistan to hand him over to it.

“Wait and watch” was what the Home Minister said when asked what action India was going to take on this latest revelation.

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