In BJP dominated Uttarakhand, Assembly passes anti-conversion & girls’s reservation invoice

By Express News Service

DEHRADUN: On the second day of the supplementary finances session, two essential payments had been handed by voice vote within the Uttarakhand Assembly. 

After the passage of the Uttarakhand Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill 2022, a provision has been made for a strict legislation concerning non secular conversion within the state. Apart from this, the Uttarakhand Public Service (Horizontal Reservation of Women) Bill 2022 will as soon as once more implement the system of 30 % horizontal reservation for girls within the state.

The state authorities had just a few days in the past determined to strengthen the anti-conversion legislation, which offered for a 10-year jail time period, declaring compelled conversion a cognizable offence. With the passage of those payments within the Assembly on Wednesday, a notification to implement them within the state shall be issued quickly.

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami mentioned,  “Uttarakhand is devbhoomi, things like conversion are very fatal for us, so the government had decided that strict laws should be made to ban religious conversion in the state”. He mentioned that it’s the endeavour of the state authorities to implement this legislation within the state with full dedication.

Regarding the Horizontal Reservation Bill for girls in Uttarakhand, Chief Minister Dhami mentioned, “The women of the state have a huge contribution in the creation of Uttarakhand and the government had already decided that they should get the benefit of this horizontal reservation while respecting the mother-power in this state with heterogeneous geographical conditions”.

DEHRADUN: On the second day of the supplementary finances session, two essential payments had been handed by voice vote within the Uttarakhand Assembly. 

After the passage of the Uttarakhand Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill 2022, a provision has been made for a strict legislation concerning non secular conversion within the state. Apart from this, the Uttarakhand Public Service (Horizontal Reservation of Women) Bill 2022 will as soon as once more implement the system of 30 % horizontal reservation for girls within the state.

The state authorities had just a few days in the past determined to strengthen the anti-conversion legislation, which offered for a 10-year jail time period, declaring compelled conversion a cognizable offence. With the passage of those payments within the Assembly on Wednesday, a notification to implement them within the state shall be issued quickly.

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami mentioned,  “Uttarakhand is devbhoomi, things like conversion are very fatal for us, so the government had decided that strict laws should be made to ban religious conversion in the state”. He mentioned that it’s the endeavour of the state authorities to implement this legislation within the state with full dedication.

Regarding the Horizontal Reservation Bill for girls in Uttarakhand, Chief Minister Dhami mentioned, “The women of the state have a huge contribution in the creation of Uttarakhand and the government had already decided that they should get the benefit of this horizontal reservation while respecting the mother-power in this state with heterogeneous geographical conditions”.