India: Hindu leader vows to continue conversions of Muslims and Christians

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The head of India's most powerful Hindu group vowed to press ahead with a campaign to convert Muslims and Christians to Hinduism, stoking a sensitive debate that has stalled parliament and threatened the prime minister's economic reform agenda.

Mohan Bhagwat of the right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, which is also the ideological wing of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party, said India was a "Hindu nation" where many Hindus had been forcibly converted to other religions.

"We will bring back those who have lost their way. They did not go on their own," Bhagwat said in a speech late on Saturday. "They were lured into leaving."

Bhagwat's comments came after Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party said it did not support forced religious conversions and called for an anti-conversion law.

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1. they aren't very effective

The numbers show increase in other groups while Hindus are decreasing as a percentage of the population.