Odisha Honours Anti-Conversion Hindu Leader as Report Cites Call for "Church-Free" State

Odisha's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government paid tribute to a hardline Hindu leader long associated with campaigns against the Christian community on July 28, renaming a state medical college in his name and unveiling his biography at an event where, according to a local news report, speakers called for the state to be made "church-free" and demanded curbs on the activities of vidharmis, a Sanskrit-derived term literally meaning one of another faith or one opposed to dharma, traditionally t