A proposal for the issue of the Bill as an ordinance to ease the quick implementation of an anti-conversion law was agreed by a cabinet meeting led by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai last week.
Noting that the anti-conversion law fails to address more pressing issues at hand, Karnataka Congress President D K Shivakumar asked, "Will it create jobs?" and whether it will be "used as a ploy to persecute minorities on fake charges?"