Overview
- Eighteen ruling‑alliance MLAs used a calling attention motion to press for a law to curb religious conversion in Bihar.
- Speaker Prem Kumar admitted the motion, pledged a review of anti-conversion statutes elsewhere, and closed further discussion for now.
- Tourism and Arts & Culture Minister Arun Shankar Prasad told the House the government has no current plan to introduce such legislation.
- Proponents pointed to laws in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Gujarat, highlighting provisions for stringent prison terms.
- Several BJP MLAs alleged forced conversions and demographic shifts in border districts and the Seemanchal region, drawing protests from RJD members.