Bangalore: The Congress Party will immediately record the anti-conversion law that is expected immediately after ruling after the 2023 assembly poll in Karnataka, opposition leader Siddaramaiiah said on Monday.
Calling “Karnataka Protection Rights for Religious Freedom Bill, 2021” is known as an anti-conversion bill as an “anti-constitution” and “Draconian”, he said the Congress also opposes religious conversion by force or through persuasion.
“We will revoke it one hundred percent, we will do it within a week after power.
We will revoke and throw it in the first session,” Siddaramaiiah told reporters.
Responding to questions about BJP planning to forward regulations that implement anti-conversion bills that have not been forwarded by the Legislative Council, he said, route procedures for use during emergency situations.
“What is an emergency now?” “It was brought with the intention of the mall, targeted at certain religions.
Our party also opposes the conversion of religious forcibly or through persuasion.
There have been provisions in the Constitution and IPC to take action against the repentance,” he added.
Karnataka Majelis last week passed the bill during a winter session that was recently concluded from the legislature of the country in the Bethobavi, in the midst of protest by opposition parties.
But the bill, has not yet become a law because it is delayed for the levels and hallways in the legislative council.
Furthermore accused that the bill was part of the BJP conspiracy to divert the attention of people from some of the main problems, by raising the emotive subjects and to polarize the community.
He also questioned the bill provisions that call conversions with illegal marriages.
“If a boy and female from different religions fall in love and get married, whether it is repentance, does it oppose the constitution? It’s my right to love and marry anyone, forbid that it’s not a constitutional,” Used Used CM.
This bill provides the protection of rights to freedom of religion and prohibits conversions that violate the law from one religion to another with representation errors, strengths, undue influences, coercion, loans or by fraud.
It proposed imprisonment from three to five years with a fine of RS 25,000, while for violations of the provisions with respect to minors, women, SC / ST, violators will face imprisonment from three to ten years and a fine of no less than Rs 50,000.
The bill also made the provisions for accused of paying to RS Lima Lakh as compensation for those who were made to repent, and related to mass conversion cases, there were 3-10 years in prison and fines until RS.
One lakh.
It also states that every marriage has occurred for the purpose of conversion or vice versa by humans from one religion with another woman, either by changing themselves before or after marriage or by converting women before or after marriage, will be declared null and void by the family court.
Wherever the family court is not stipulated, the court has jurisdiction to try such cases, in the petition presented by one of the parties with other parties from marriage.
Violations based on this bill cannot be responded to and can be punished.
Congress will immediately revoke anti-conversion laws after power in Karnataka
