To preach conversions through official publications wrong: BJP

NEW DELHI: The BJP on Monday took strong exception to the Madhya Pradesh government publication urging Dalits to give up Hinduism and said this kind of statement shows that the state government is encouraging conversions.
"Any state government which in its publication states that Dalits give up Hinduism is highly condemnable," BJP Spokesman V K Malhotra told reporters here.
"To preach conversions through official publications is wrong and the Madhya Pradesh government is considering it an achievement. We strongly condemn this kind of acts by the state government and it is being done by MP Chief Minister Digvijay Singh to please Sonia Gandhi," he said.
He wondered whether Singh was trying to please Congress President Sonia Gandhi through such publications.

To a question that Mayawati too was indulging in converting people, Malhotra said, "Mayawati and Digvijay cannot be compared as there is no such official programme of the Uttar Pradesh government to convert people. She is only telling her party cadres and not talking on behalf of the state government".
He hit out at the Congress for continuing to support the RJD government in Bihar despite complete breakdown of law and order in the state where schools and offices have been closed down and buses of all transport companies have been taken away and "this only shows that jungle raj prevails in the state."