The forgotten promise of India

Fundamental rights explicitly guaranteed by the Constitution are being casually eroded in the garb of religious freedom laws

Article 15 of the Constitution reads: “Subject to public order, morality and health and to the other provisions of this Part, all persons are equally entitled to freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practise and propagate religion.”

On December 13, 2015, Rediff interviewed the man who would go on to become the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh (“Yogi Adityanath proposes anti-conversion law, without ban on ‘reconversion’’). “We have reconverted several lakh Muslims and Christians over the past ten years,” he claimed, speaking of the activities of his organisation, the Hindu Yuva Vahini, “What I am doing is simply