CM Pinarayi Vijayan pens to Centre over Nuns harassment, Amit Shah assures action

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday took up the matter of alleged harassment of nuns belonging to a Kerala-based congregation in Uttar Pradesh recently with Home Minister Amit Shah promising strong action.

While Vijayan flagged concerns of freedom of individual rights in the incident, Shah pointed out that Uttar Pradesh was a BJP-ruled state and promised to bring before the law, those behind the incident.

According to officials in Jhansi, the nuns were detained on



March 19 after local Bajrang Dal activists complained that two women were allegedly being taken forcibly for religious conversion. The police said there was no basis in the complaint and all four women later took the next train to their destination in Odisha.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is in the state to campaign for the party ahead of the April 6 Assembly polls, said, "I want to assure the people of Kerala that the culprits behind this incident will be brought to justice at the earliest."