Sikh delegation meets Home MoS Reddy, demands strong anti-conversion law

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 29

Amid the raging protest against alleged forcible conversion and wedding of Sikh girls in Jammu and Kashmir, a Sikh delegation, comprising BJP spokesperson RP Singh, Jago Party president Manjit Singh GK and others, on Tuesday met Union Minister of State (MoS), Home, G Kishan Reddy, and submitted a memorandum seeking a strong anti-conversion law.

Later, after the meeting the Sikh leaders, Reddy said, “The delegation has come here to submit a representation to the Union Government. The forced conversion and wedding of Sikh girls in Kashmir is wrong and the delegation has submitted a memorandum over it. I will discuss this with the Union Home Minister regarding the action that needs to be taken.”

The Sikh leaders have asked the government to enact a strong law against conversion by force or by duping. They have also demanded equal rights for the minority Sikhs residing in Jammu and Kashmir.

Earlier, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had also assured to meet these leaders to discuss the issue of religious conversion and possible appropriate actions.

The Sikh leaders said they had faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he had been working towards normalisation in Jammu and Kashmir.

On Monday, a massive protest had taken place at the J&K House in New Delhi.

Reportedly, two Sikh girls were abducted and forcibly converted to Islam. The first one, an 18-year-old Sikh girl from Badgam district, was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam at gunpoint. Another girl from Srinagar, who after attending a function of her Muslim friend, has been missing and is reported to have been married off to a 62-year old man.