Conversion of tribals has stopped: Minister

May 09, 2016 12:00 am | Updated 08:16 am IST - Ahmedabad:

Conversion of tribal people to Christianity in Dangs district has “stopped because of intervention” by the Gujarat government, State Minister Mangubhai Patel said here on Sunday.

Speaking at a function here after an RSS-affiliated body released a ‘vision document’ for uplift of the community, the Minister said: “In Dangs, they (Christian missionaries) distributed sugar and wheat as a lure to convert poor tribal people to Christianity, (but) we led a revolution and today we can say for sure that conversion has stopped because of government’s intervention. ” -- PTI

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