The State Government on Wednesday sounded a high alert over the reports of functions to be organised on conversion in the State besides ordering a probe after lodging an FIR in a case of alleged forceful conversion of 57 Muslim families in Agra on Sunday.
Inspector General (law and Order), A Satish Ganesh told reporters here on Wednesday evening that DGP has issued orders to all the district police chiefs for monitoring any such function of conversion in their area.’’ Such incidents will be prevented at any cost,’’ he said.
When asked about the proposed conversion programme in Aligarh on December 25, the IG said that the organisors are yet to seek permission. “We directed the Aligarh authorities to keep a tab on the situation,’’ he added while hinting that Government would not allow the programme to be held in Aligarh at any cost.
Meanwhile, Hindu Yuva Vahini, an outfit floated by BJP MP from Gorakhpur, Yogi Adityanath, will reconvert people (who were ‘forced’ to convert to Hindus earlier) to Hindu in a programme at Ghazipur in eastern UP on Decemebr 18.
Yuva Vahini State president Sunil Singh on Wednesday said in Gorakhpur that the organisation has taken permission from the administration for the event and they are hopeful to reconvert 2,000 people in Ghazipur on December 18.
Earlier, UP chief secretary Alok Ranjan said here the FIR has been registered and investigation is underway. “If the conversion was forceful, then certainly action would be taken against the people involved in it,” he stated.
The State Government, meanwhile, is likely to ban the proposed conversion of 5,000 more Muslims and Christians under the programme ‘Purkhon ki ghar vapsi’, to be jointly organised by Dharma Jagran Samanvay Vibhag, an offshoot of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and Bajrang Dal in Aligarh on December 25 during Christmas.
The event was slated to be held at Maheshwari College in Aligarh, he said. On the other hand, some Muslim organisations held demonstration in front of the Mantola police station in Agra in protest against the conversion and demanded arrest of RSS leaders.