Misinformation campaign being run by oppn: Yogi
Prabhat Ranjan Deen
LUCKNOW, Jan 21: Reiterating Centre’s stand on Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said the CAA will not be withdrawn at any cost and those protesting can continue to do so even as he challenged opposition leaders for a public debate on the contentious law.
Accusing the opposition of “misleading” people on the amended citizenship law, Shah threw the challenge for the debate to Rahul Gandhi (Congress), Mamata Banerjee (Trinamool Congress), Akhilesh Yadav (Samajwadi Party) and Mayawati (Bahujan Samaj Party). The Union Home Minister was addressing a massive rally in Lucknow.
“A myth is being spread in the country about CAA. Riots and arsons are being induced and protest and dharnas are being fomented by SP-BSP, Congress and Trinamool Congress,” Shah said, adding, there is no provision in this law for taking away the citizenship but it is for granting the citizenship.
Shah accused the Congress of not implementing the suggestions that came from its own leaders in the past on granting citizenship to minority Hindus in Pakistan, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) and Afghanistan after Partition. He also hit out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, saying she is now opposing Indian citizenship for Dalit Bengalis.
“If any clause of the CAA takes away the citizenship of anyone, including Muslims, they can tell me. The agitations and sit-ins, which are being organised in the country against it, are wrong,” he said, adding the Congress has become blind due to vote bank politics.
Shah asked opposition parties where they were when crores of people were killed in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh on the basis of religion. He said five lakh Pandits were displaced from Kashmir but these parties did not utter a word. “Now, because of PM Modi, a new chapter has begun in the lives of these people,” he said.
Referring to the recent Supreme Court verdict that allows the construction of a Ram temple at the disputed Ayodhya site, Shah said the construction of the temple will begin in three months.
Addressing the rally, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said, “CAA is in the larger interest of humanity as this law is about granting citizenship and not taking it away. A misinformation campaign is being run by opposition parties against the amended Citizenship. People are being paid for arson and misled through staging dharnas, but truth will always remain truth.” Yogi said that the country is supreme and any kind of politics on the nation will not be acceptable.
He said the aspirations of the country are being fulfilled for the second time under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After Independence, the task of cleaning up the Congress’ sins is being done by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Yogi added.
Yogi further said that whether it was abrogation of Article 370 from J&K, verdict on 500-year-long pending dispute of Ram Temple, end of the evil practice of ‘Triple Talaq’ or granting the citizenship to refugees, all these tasks have been done under the able leadership of PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. “These tasks should have been done after Independence, but previous Governments did not have the courage to do so,” he added.
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