Ashwini supports the anti-conversion ordinance.

If you take a look the Act itself, it clearly proposes an imprisonment and fine for those who ‘force’ or ‘induce’ conversions only. Fair enough I say. This way only a person who is truly interested in the new faith will convert. Conversion was not meant to be a numbers game anyway.

Freedom of religion isn’t just the freedom to practice the religion you were born into. It is the freedom to practice any religion of your choice, including the freedom not to practice any religion. It is not for the Government to dictate which religion people should follow, or that conversion should happen only for “spiritual” reasons. Should the Government ban praying to God for fulfillment of material desires? If not, why should it ban the actual fulfillment of those desires?

I personally prefer an easygoing religion like Hinduism over other religions which say that there is only one God and that all others are false. But I don’t support using Government power to force people to follow my beliefs.