An all-party parliamentary committee should be formed to tackle the issue of unilateral conversion of minors, said DAP national vice-chair M Kulasegaran.

The MP for Ipoh Barat urged this today after concluding that the cabinet committee set up to resolve the problem has been, as he claimed, “ineffective”.

The issue of unilateral conversion of children by an estranged or divorced parent reached a climax last Thursday when the Court of Appeal overturned an Ipoh High Court decision that quashed the conversion of the children of Indira Gandhi, a Hindu mother who resorted to the civil court as a remedy for her situation.