Union Home Minister Amit Shah has distributed citizenship certificates to 188 hindus from Pakistan under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Addressing the gathering, Shah slammed the INDI Alliance and the previous Congress government for neglecting the Hindu and other minority refugees for vote bank and appeasement politics.
He reiterated Modi government’s commitment for implementation of CAA across the country.
“CAA is not just for giving citizenship to people, it is also to give justice and rights to lakhs of people. Because of the appeasement politics of Congress and its allies, people seeking refuge did not get justice from 1947 to 2014. They were tortured in neighbouring countries because they were Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh or Jain, but they were also tortured in their own country… The appeasement politics of INDI Alliance did not serve them justice. PM Modi gave them justice,” Shah said, ANI reported.
“When partition took place then riots occurred. Crores of Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists living in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan had to bear the brunt and many families were eliminated. Congress had assured that the refugees from these countries would be given citizenship in India but did not do so to appease its vote bank,” he added.
He further said that the BJP had assured in 2014 that if it came to power it would implement CAA.
“Although the law was passed in 2019 still there was a delay in giving citizenship because the minorities were misled but CAA does not take away citizenship from anyone. Today also some state governments are misleading people. In my state, 128 families have become citizens of India. When Bangladesh was created there were 27 per cent Hindus there but today it is 9 per cent because they were forced to change their religion,” he added.
