India, Aug. 30 -- The Goa assembly's three-day monsoon session opens Monday, Aug 31 with debate expected on a proposed anti-conversion bill that has drawn fire from the Opposition.

The House will take up 883 questions submitted by members across party lines during the session, Joint Secretary (Legislature Department) Mohan Gaonkar told PTI on Sunday.

The Goa Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Bill, 2026, will be tabled during the session. The BJP-led state cabinet approved the bill on Wednesday, proposing life imprisonment among other stringent penalties.

The bill sets out punishment for religious conversion carried out through force, coercion, undue influence, allurement, fraudulent means or marriage. Offenders could face ...