Hyderabad, Oct 18: Denouncing the Tamil Nadu religious conversion ordinance, the All India Christian Council (AICC) today termed it as "violative of basic tenets of freedom of religion".
"Jayalalithaa's measures in promulgating the ordinance have provoked global condemnation and is a deliberate cunning scheme to terrorise the minorities and pamper the Sangh Parivar," Dr Joseph D’souza and Dr D John Dayal, president and secretary general respectively of the council alleged in a joint statement here. "The church in India rejects conversions by force, fraud and inducement. In fact, the term 'forced and fraudulent conversions' is used for political ends to divert public attention by right wing vested interests who are in fact forcing their own brand of 'one nation, one culture and one faith ideology' on the people of India," the statement said.
Condemning the demand made by RSS chief K Sudarshan for a central act against conversions, the statement called upon Dalits and minorities to organise "Satyagraha" in protest against the ordinance.

Bureau Report