Due to a shortage of numbers, particularly on the opposition benches, the government was compelled to postpone the anti-conversion bill's introduction in the council on Friday, the penultimate day of the legislature's winter session.
The Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021 — often known as the "anti-conversion bill" — will not become law until 2021. The state's BJP government has deferred it until the Legislative Council's next session in January, when it will be able to "stitch up a majority," as it currently lacks the necessary numbers.
It is scheduled to be debated in the next session, by which time the BJP's upper-house majority will have grown. Currently, the saffron party lacks the necessary numbers to pass the bill without opposition. The BJP's strength in the 75-member House would increase to 37 from 32 following the recent elections to the Local Authorities Constituency. The number of members of Congress would drop from 29 to 26, and the number of JD(S) members would drop from 10 to 12.
Since the House opened on Friday, there has been a lot of conjecture about whether the Government will introduce the Bill. Due to the fact that it was the final day of the session, a few members of both the ruling and opposition parties had gone early. The BJP planned to introduce the bill and get it passed by relying on large-scale absenteeism from the Opposition benches.
Horatti invited deputy chairman MK Pranesh to preside over the proceedings when the house reconvene. Poojary later stated that the bill would not be considered in this session.
The anti-conversion bill is unlikely to face many obstacles in the next session, given that the BJP's majority in the council will increase to 37 after January 5, one short of a simple majority, and it is expected to receive support from Independent Lakhan Jarkiholi, who ran as a rebel BJP candidate in the recent MLC elections.
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