Tripura CM warns against forceful conversions

Tripura's Left Front government will not tolerate any forceful religious conversions and would take strict action against any such move, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has said.
He made the announcement on Wednesday while speaking to the reporters at a press conference in the state secretariat.“I have made it very clear to the public that we will not allow it (conversions). If anybody wants to change his religion on his own, voluntarily, that is different. “One can do this, Babasaheb Ambedkar did this and nobody objected about it. But forcibly or through allurement if anybody tries to do this, law is there and law will take its own course,” the chief minister of the lone Left-ruled Indian state said.
On the recent pro-conversion rhetoric of some leaders of RSS, a Hindu hardliner close to the BJP, Sarkar viewed that such statements were unjustified and dangerous for the idea of India, a multi-religious, multi-cultural, multi-lingual and secular nation, according to a news agency.