Not quite a hundred thousand

From the Ambedkar 2006 blog:

The much hyped Hyderabad conversions have proved a damp squib. The ceremony I attended today where the organisers had claimed 100,000 would convert attracted perhaps one percent of that number.

The BBC reports that:

Udit Raj, a Dalit leader, told the BBC that around 2,500 people converted to Christianity and Buddhism.

According to The Hindu:

Hundreds of Dalits on Saturday embraced Buddhism and Christianity at a programme here, where copies of the Gujarat Government's anti-conversion Bill were burnt.

The Ambedkar 2006 blog has a round-up of the media coverage in this post.

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