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BANGALORE: Six prominent Hindu leaders on Thursday said
that they had urged Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to
enact a law on the lines of the legislation brought out
by the Madhya Pradesh and Orissa Governments to ban
religious conversion, in view of a significant exodus to
Christianity that affects the demographic structure of
the State.
Addressing presspersons, MLC S.R. Leela; the former MLC
K.Narahari; Executive Director, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Mathoor Krishnamurthy; Member, All India Executive
Committee, Rashtreeya Swayamsevak Sangh M.C. Jayadev;
Regional Secretary, Vishwa Hindu Parishat B.N. Murthy
and noted scholar M.Chidananda Murthy said they had a
presented a memorandum containing the demands to the
Chief Minister recently.
Hindu religious heads have written to the government in
this regard, they said.
They said that a large section of the Hindu population
in the north-eastern States of India had been converted
to Christianity from other religions. He then alleged
that this change in religion has those people to have an
impression that they were a separate nation. Such
developments should make the State Government enact a
law on stopping conversion, they added.
The people of north eastern India might wish to contest
the reasons given by these Hindutva groups for their
desire to be seen as a different nation! They often
allege that people in mainland India treat them as
foreigners and look down on them with contempt. Who
considers whom as foreigners is anybody's guess.
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