New Delhi: Janab Nusrat Ali, Secretary General, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has demanded Gujarat government to revoke original act, Gujarat freedom of Religion Act, better known as Anti-Conversion Bill, which was adopted in 2003.
Reacting on Gujarat government's recent decision to withdraw amendment in the said Bill, Mr Nusrat Ali articulated that the original act should completely be eliminated as it affected the Right to freedom of religion and belief and it can be misused. 'A person should be free to adopt any religion or belief with no intervention, and he or she should be provided congenial environment for adoption,' he added.
He called upon for a full discussion on the act either for fully amendment or revocation, as other states just obliges a person, getting converted, to inform the government, whereas in Gujarat, one has to seek permission of the government, this law actually serves to break religious freedom and contradicts rights protected within international agreements and the Indian Constitution as mentioned in the Articles 25 to 30 of the Indian Constitution and in the Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
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