The question that they ask is, what is wrong in giving money and education to poor people?
We will not object to anyone giving money and education to the poor, but what is objectionable is asking them to convert in return. If you are so concerned about the downtrodden, help them. When you ask them to convert to your religion in lieu of the benefits that you provide, it is clearly allurement and inducement. If you are really interested in serving society without expecting any returns, do it. Nobody is going to prevent you. When all minority educational institutions were forcibly closed it showed that there is an element of the ‘church’ in education also. Otherwise, what are educational institutions going to do with the conversion bill? They say that like POTA [the Prevention of Terrorism Act], this bill also will be misused. POTA has never been misused, at least in our state. When somebody says I will support the LTTE [the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam], the government cannot turn the other way. I want to ask all these people who say that POTA has been misused — do they
