Council welcomes MCM statement

Hyderabad, July 28 (UNI) The All India Christian Council (AICC) today welcomed the statement of National Commission for Minorities (NCM) asking state governments not to dilute religious freedom guaranteed in the Constitution by legislating new anti-conversion bills.

AICC National Administrator Albert Lael, in a statement, said NCM chairman Hamid Ansari told the states not to dilute religious freedom through new laws.

He said the Commission Chairman informed AICC Secretary General John Dayal that the Commission was alive to the concerns of the Christian community.

The AICC had presented to the Commission a statement signed by scores of human rights activists belonging to various religions from all over the country protesting the'so called' freedom of religious bills being passed by the Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand Governments.

He claimed "the Commission was the first Constitutional authority to have found the new Bills in contravention of the statutes." The Commission had called upon the state governments to resolve issues through dialogue, he said.

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