PRAYAGRAJ: Claiming that the kinnar (transgender) community was the worst affected by religious conversions, member of UP Kinnar Welfare Board and UP head of Kinnar Akhara, Kaushalyanand Giri, who is also known as Tina Maa, has booked a show of ‘The Kerala Story’ at a multiplex in the city where where people of the transgender community will watch the movie on Friday.
“We have been initiating moves to check religious conversation and ‘love jihad’ among girls and transgender community but it is for the first time that we are organising special screening of a movie which highlights the topic,” Tina Maa told TOI on Thursday.
“We will keep telling our community members and girls about the ill-effects of ‘love jihad’ and religious conversions,” Tina Maa futher added.
Tina Maa added, “Religious conversion is a sensitive issue and should be tackled tactfully and promptly.
The transgender community has always been the worst- affected by religious conversions. The Kinnar Akhara is taking up the issue seriously and has also taken some converted transgender people back in the fold of Hinduism.”
She further claimed, “I have taken up a nationwide campaign to check religious conversion among the transgender community, and over 32 of us have already returned to Hinduism after leaving Islam,” she claimed, adding, “Now, we are confident of taking up our campaign at a war-footing and check this practice at the grassroot level.”
She said that ‘The Kerala Story’ has turned out to be an eye-opener for the society and everyone must watch it. “There is a need to take up a mass awareness campaign on the sensitive issue.. people must know the reality and the happenings taking place in Kerala and elsewhere.”
Tina Mas has been threatened several times by fundamentalists for taking up the campaign against religious conversions’ but the kinnar seer is firmly committed to her campaign without caring for her life.
‘The Kerala Story’ puts spotlight on forced conversion and radicalization of women in the Kerala state. The film has invited protests. While some states have banned it, others made it tax free.
“We have been initiating moves to check religious conversation and ‘love jihad’ among girls and transgender community but it is for the first time that we are organising special screening of a movie which highlights the topic,” Tina Maa told TOI on Thursday.
“We will keep telling our community members and girls about the ill-effects of ‘love jihad’ and religious conversions,” Tina Maa futher added.
Tina Maa added, “Religious conversion is a sensitive issue and should be tackled tactfully and promptly.
The transgender community has always been the worst- affected by religious conversions. The Kinnar Akhara is taking up the issue seriously and has also taken some converted transgender people back in the fold of Hinduism.”
She further claimed, “I have taken up a nationwide campaign to check religious conversion among the transgender community, and over 32 of us have already returned to Hinduism after leaving Islam,” she claimed, adding, “Now, we are confident of taking up our campaign at a war-footing and check this practice at the grassroot level.”
She said that ‘The Kerala Story’ has turned out to be an eye-opener for the society and everyone must watch it. “There is a need to take up a mass awareness campaign on the sensitive issue.. people must know the reality and the happenings taking place in Kerala and elsewhere.”
Tina Mas has been threatened several times by fundamentalists for taking up the campaign against religious conversions’ but the kinnar seer is firmly committed to her campaign without caring for her life.
‘The Kerala Story’ puts spotlight on forced conversion and radicalization of women in the Kerala state. The film has invited protests. While some states have banned it, others made it tax free.