India: MP Sakshi Maharaj Vows Death Sentences for Hindus Converting to Islam or Christianity by Umberto Bacchi International Business Times |
"Controversial MP Sakshi Maharaj, an outspoken member of Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), also told a religious gathering in Uttar Pradesh that each Hindu woman should mother four children in order to protect the predominance of India's largest religious group.
"'Wait for some time," local media quoted him as saying. "A law will be passed in Parliament in which anyone indulging in cow slaughter and conversion will be punished with the death sentence."
"Maharaj specified that Indians of Muslim, Christian and other religious faiths who convert to Hinduism will not be subjected to the same punishment. The differentiation been based on the assumption that members of India's religious minorities were once Hindus who have been converted..."