During the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a tremendous increase in cases of religious conversion where missionaries and fundamentalists took advantage of lockdowns and financial conditions of people to convert them from Hinduism
Giri further stated that he wants politicians to stop using the word Dalits and call the members of his community SCs, STs and OBCs as mandated by the Constitution. He asserted that he has faced casteist comments himself but wants Gharwapsi of people to Hinduism.
Nearly 200 tribal Christian families that had earlier converted to Christianity returned to Hinduism in a Hindu Dharma Jagran Sammelan organised at the Biliya-Aslona village of Valsad district, Gujarat