India, May 25 -- Punjab does not have an anti-conversion law of the sort that twelve BJP-governed states - from Uttar Pradesh to Madhya Pradesh, from Gujarat to Uttarakhand - have enacted with varying degrees of severity.

But for Christian converts and Hindus, and the occasional Muslim, the AAP government's recent Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar (Amendment) Act has become a "present and active" threat.

The 2026 Act, also referred to as the sacrilege amendment, was passed in a special session of the Punjab Assembly on Baisakhi - April 13, 2026, remembered by the community as Khalsa Sajna Diwas - and notified within the week.

With every passing day, the law's institutional opponents multiply - the Akali Dal and the Church of Nor...