The Uttar Pradesh BJP chief, Lakshmi Kant Bajpayee, on Monday distanced the party from the conversions done last week in the eastern part of the State by the Hindu Yuva Vahini, established by Mahant Aditya Nath, the party MP from Gorakhpur.
The State has been at the centre of the controversy after the Hindu Dharam Jagaran Samanvay Samiti recently organised conversions of Muslims to Hinduism .
Mr. Bajpayee said: “We have nothing to do with Ghar Vapsi done by the Hindu Yuva Vahini. Aditya Nathji is our respectable MP , but the BJP and the HYV are separate organisations.”