Draft Resolution

Committee: All India Political Parties Meet (AIPPM)

Authors: Narendra Modi, Chandrababu Naidu, Eknath Shinde, Amit Shah, Smriti Irani
Signatories: Narendra Modi, Chandrababu Naidu, Eknath Shinde, Amit Shah, Smriti Irani
Agenda: Religious Freedom with a special emphasis on Anti-Conversion Laws

Preambulatory Clauses

• Noting with concern unlawful, coerced conversions especially involving scheduled castes and scheduled tribes;

• Emphasising the limitations of Article 25 of the Indian Constitution;

• Having reviewed the current procedures for interfaith marriages;

• Acknowledging Article 44’s directive principle for a Uniform Civil Code to secure national integration;

• Noting with approval BNS articles 197, 316, 330;

• Acknowledging Article 14’s guarantee of equality before law which necessitates uniform application of marriage laws;

• Concerned by Article 15’s prohibition of discrimination being potentially undermined by religion-based personal laws;

• Referring to the Aadhaar Act 2016’s provisions for secure digital identity verification;

• Referring to Information Technology Act 2000’s provisions for secure digital record-keeping;

• Affirming the Directive Principles’ call for modernization of legal systems (Article 37);

Operative Clauses

1. Adopts an alternative bureaucratic method for the SMA (1954):
   (a) An Aadhaar-based registration and checking will take place
   (b) A unified database will be created which will contain the collective data of all the marriage acts
   (c) Private information will only be available to authorities and not the public

2. Calls for the nationwide implementation of UCC that mirrors the provisions of its counterpart passed in Uttarakhand

3. Acknowledges nationwide marriage and divorce uniformity (procedural) as mentioned in the reference bill stated in Operative Clause number:
   (a) Cultural practices and/or laws including Shariat will not be considered
   (b) Scheduled Caste/Tribe rights stated in the Constitution will be upheld

4. Introduces a cool-down period of 3 years if an individual reconverts to his/her original faith within a year of the initial conversion, only delaying welfare benefits but not the bureaucratic conversion of religions

5. Calls upon the Finance and Electronics Ministries to improve pre-existing DBT systems in light of usage of false identities

6. Recommends the setup of an anonymous coercion reporting portal:
   (a) Fake informants will be jailed for violation of BNS 197
   (b) Data will be recorded, tracked, and displayed with the help of blockchain technology

7. Puts forth the retention of caste-based benefits for 5 years after an individual belonging to an SC converts into another religion

8. Calls for a nationwide anti-conversion law:
   (a) These laws are to mirror the provisions of the UP PCR (2021)
   (b) Any clash of these laws with UCC will result in the triumph of UCC

9. Supports the establishment of a team of senior Government officials in each district to look after the education of the people in their locality with respect to these anti-conversion laws

10. Encourages State Governments to diligently monitor and prioritise the digitisation and registrations related to these implementations