Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on June 13 hit out at Pope John Paul II for decrying the enactment of anti-conversion laws in Tamil Nadu and Gujarat and said the Pope "has no business" to comment on it.

Criticising the Pope for his remarks on June 3 at Vatican city, Jayalalithaa told a press conference that the Pope "has no business to comment on a law passed by democratically elected governments in our country".

She said there was no threat to religion because of this enactment.

PTI