Chhattisgarh government to bring stricter law against illegal religious conversions: Deputy CM Sharma

Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma connected Tuesday (October 14, 2025) said the State authorities volition bring a instrumentality to forestall amerciable spiritual conversions successful the adjacent league of the State assembly, which volition person a proviso to curb 'changai sabha' oregon religion healing meetings.

Mr. Sharma, who besides holds the location portfolio, told reporters the caller instrumentality volition beryllium "one measurement ahead" of specified laws existing successful different states of the country.

Over a query connected spiritual conversion, Mr. Sharma said, "An Act volition beryllium introduced successful the upcoming league (of the authorities assembly), which I judge volition beryllium a measurement up of the existing Acts successful different states, arsenic it incorporates everyone's experiences (provisions successful unit successful different states)." "Additionally, determination are things similar 'changai sabha', which everybody understands are misleading. Therefore, these things indispensable beryllium stopped. This requires ineligible provisions, which volition beryllium included successful the upcoming Act," helium added.

Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai and Deputy CM Sharma had said successful the past that the authorities volition bring a caller instrumentality to curb amerciable spiritual conversions successful the state.

According to officials, the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Act, 1968, is presently successful unit successful the authorities to code the cases of forced conversions.