External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday said that religious conversions in the country will continue till a central law against the practice comes into force.
“Such a law can come into existence if all parties agree to it,” Union Minister told reporters here. She was responding to a question on whether “ghar wapsi” events are affecting Narendra Modi government’s development agenda.
Defending anti-conversion laws in BJP-ruled Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, the Lok Sabha member from Vidisha insisted that such acts do not ban voluntary conversions and only stop forcible conversions.
Denying that she was not accompanying Prime Minister Narendra Modi on foreign visits, she said it was not required as they had divided work to ensure efficiency. Swaraj said she travelled with the PM when was mandatory like during the SAARC summit, where the External Affairs minister signs the agreement.
She refused to spell out the steps taken by the Centre to bring situation in Assam under control, terming them “confidential”. She, however, said the government “was doing everything it takes to stop it”.
To a question on why the Centre was not calling a joint session of Parliament to clear important legislations, Swaraj said for that to happen either a bill has to be defeated in one House or it has to remain pending in one House, neither of which has happened so far.
Swaraj described the mass financial inclusion under the Jan Dhan Yojana as “revolutionary”, saying that the NDA government had given a good account of good governance and development by reaching out to the poor in the seven months of coming to power.
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