Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday (March 16, 2026) said several women have been lured into relationships, married and later abandoned, asserting that the Bill against fraudulent religious conversion aims to address these issues and curb such practices.
The Opposition parties are politicising the issue for vote-bank gains, but once they read the Bill carefully, they will have no objections, Mr. Fadnavis told reporters at the Mantralaya.
Maharashtra was not the first State to introduce such legislation as several States had already enacted similar laws to curb unlawful religious conversions, he noted.
If enacted, Maharashtra will join States like Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttarakhand that have enacted similar laws to regulate religious conversions.
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