Apart from being bad in law, the UP ordinance law is regressively patriarchal in nature
Since the promulgation of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance 2020 by the Governor of the State – in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the grundnorm of the land – the moral as well as constitutional validity of it has been a huge matter of debate. No sooner was it enacted than it kicked up a storm across the legal realm. Although anti-conversion laws of such nature already exist in several other states, the UP law is a draconian one of its own kind.