Bihar Assembly Speaker Prem Kumar on Friday (February 27, 2026) said that the State government would review anti-conversion laws of other States and “if required, would implement it in the State as well”.
Mr. Kumar made the announcement in the Assembly during a debate on the Calling Attention Motion moved by 18 ruling party MLAs.
“The Bihar government will certainly review anti-conversion laws of other States that prohibit forced religious conversion and forced inter-faith marriage and if required, the same law will be implemented in this State as well," the Speaker said.
Raising the issue in the House, BJP MLA Birendra Kumar said, “Several states, including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Gujarat, have already passed unlawful religious conversion Bills and enacted those.”
These laws have provisions for stricter punishment if a person’s life and wealth are put under threat for religious conversion, or if marriage or promise of it is used for the religious conversion, he said.
