Won't Hit Growth Story: Karnataka Chief Minister On Anti-Conversion Bill

The anti-conversion law is meant to prevent religious conversion either by force or through inducement.

The anti-conversion law will not come in the way of growth story, underlined Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, adding that investor confidence is huge and that every state has "domestic issues".

"It has nothing to do with investment, nothing to do with growth story. For last four quarters, lot of other issues, domestic issues, are there. Which state doesn't have domestic issues, one way or another. But the confidence of the investor, both outside the country and inside, is so huge that it has nothing to do with that," he told NDTV on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

"These are the domestic issues which have been raised; we have to tackle them also. So that's also our responsibility. However, these things are never going to affect the growth story," he stressed.  

Earlier this month, Karnataka passed the controversial anti-conversion bill through an ordinance or executive order. The new law is meant to prevent religious conversion either by force or through inducement.