Bengaluru: With Hindutva outfits expressing apprehensions that a Christian prayer meeting was to be held with the intention of forcefully converting people in Bengaluru, the meeting was cancelled 12 hours prior to the event.

Two American preachers and thousands of people were to take part in the meeting on Saturday and Sunday. The programme — themed Power and Reality of the Kingdom — was to be held in a church in east Bengaluru.

As per sources, first complaint was filed on Friday afternoon by one Girish Bharadwaj with the Foreigners’ Regional Registration Office stating that two evangelists were in India for ‘religious conversion’, violating their Visa norms.

One of the organisers was quoted in news18 saying that the event was to be attended only by Christians and that they had no intentions of converting anybody. “We fail to understand why it was hastily cancelled,” he said.

A similar prayer meeting was cancelled in Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh, after the Hindu Yuva Vahini, founded by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, alleged forced conversions.