(3) It is regrettable to bring to your notice that in some Provinces our religious freedom is being interfered with by certain Legislatures. The Bombay and Madras Legislative Assemblies have passed Harijan Temple Entry Acts recently and strangely enough have made them applicable even to Jains. It is admitted on all hands that Harijans are Hindus by religion. They worship Hindu deities and profess Hindu religion. They neither believe nor follow Jainism much less worship Jain deities installed in Jain Temples. So the Central Provinces Assembly has rightly excluded the Jains from the operation of a similar Act passed by it; but in Bombay and Madras by including the Jains amongst the Hindus in these Acts, the Provincial Legislatures have offended the feelings of so many Jains by unnecessarily interfering with their religious freedom. Without in any way offending the feelings and the rights of the Harijans in respect of their own religion, it is humbly submitted that no non-Jain, whether he be a Hindu, Harijan, Muslim, Christian or Parsi, can claim as of right to enter Jain temples and worship Jain deities, as his religion is different
