Anti conversion legislations
Quite often I find bunch of interesting people criticising any legislation passed by any state of India aiming to prevent conversion of Hindus. They call such legislations unconstitutional. The basis of this arguement is Article 25 which guarantees the freedom of conscience, the freedom to profess, practice, and propagate religion to all citizens. Along with that, the clause 25(1) says that this freedom is subject to restrictions based on public health, order and morality. Let's shift our focus on the phrase "Freedom of conscience". That means the person has to have a free will and right to decide by himself about his religious denomination, "free will" being the operative part. Allurement of a person into a religious denomination on the pretext of economic benefits is blatant misuse and exploitation of his poor economic condition. Simultaneously it is also a failure on the part of a so called "socialist state" in ensuring enough economic opportuniti...