The Commission had submitted a report a fortnight ago to the Prime Minister Office (PMO) on this issue after the visit of the NCM Vice Chairman Pinto to Kandhamal and other affected districts between September 11 to September 13 after violence broke out against Christian institutions there in wake of the killing of VHP leader Laxmananda Saraswati on August 23.

Besides a few eye-witness accounts, the report also had copies of threat letters issued to Christians. The Commission told the PM that the Christians living in the government camps are being asked to "convert" to Hinduism if they want to return home, sources said.

NCM also demanded action under the existing Orissa Freedom of Religion Act against those who are forcing Christians to convert to Hinduism.

In its eleven-point recommendation, the Commission stressed on "firm action" against the "instigators of violence, who spread communal hatred". "If the state is unable to do it, the Centre should consider an appropriate response," the NCM report said.

Rubbishing the charge of forced conversions of tribal into Christians, the NCM report said, "If indeed conversions by force or fraud were responsible for the feelings against Christians, it is amazing that provisions of Freedom of Religion Act, designed to precisely to address such conversions, have never been invoked."

In an oblique reference to Bajrang Dal, the Commission also recommended that all organisations, which spread communal hatred should be banned.

"The recommendation asks for ban on all communal organizations and they obviously include Bajrang Dal," Qureshi said.