Dr Singh terms CAA, NRC protests as political sponsored movement
   Date :06-Jan-2020

Dr Singh terms CAA NRC pr
 
 
Staff Reporter :
 
RAIPUR,
 
Amid protests by several non Bharatiya Janata Party ruled states against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, BJP National Vice President Dr Raman Singh and Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Ministry of Labour and Employment Santosh Kumar Gangwar stated that the states have to implement the legislation as it had been passed by Parliament. Commenting on the statement made by Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel that he wouldn’t sign NRC form, Dr Raman Singh said giving or withdrawing citizenship is not a state subject and state government shouldn’t unnecessary make it more complicated by jumping into it. Union MoS Santosh Kumar Gangwar said the Chhattisgarh Chief Minister should make statements keeping in view the country’s federal structure.
 
Regarding the nationwide protests against CAA, NRC and now NPR, Dr Singh termed it as nothing but a completely sponsored political movement being held on the behest of Congress, CPI, CPI (M) as well as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Bannerjee and others. Addressing a joint press conference on Sunday after kick-starting the public door-to-door awareness campaign on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, in Chhattisgarh, Dr Raman Singh said Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Ministry of Labour and Employment Santosh Kumar Gangwar is here with a subject on which nationwide discussions are going on and in order to calm down people’s apprehensions, nationwide campaign has been launched, wherein, the BJP will be holding press-conferences in all districts as well as state head-quarters apart from carrying out door-to-door campaigns for creating awareness on the Act.
 
Also during the campaign meeting will be held with different community and professional groups in the society. The campaign which is being participated by national and state leaders, was launched today by Union Home Minister and National President Amit Shah. Addressing the gathering, Union Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar said that that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 is not meant for harassing anyone or any community in particular or terminating their citizenship but it has been enacted to grant citizenship to persecuted minorities from three Muslim majority countries including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
 
The MoS said there two places in Uttar Pradesh known for Islamic thoughts, that is, Deoband and Bareilly. He added that he comes from Bareilly. During the recent upheaval against CAA, people must have noticed that no adverse reports have emerged against CAA from Deoband or Bareilly. He however added that out of apprehension a sizeable number of people belonging to Muslim community had handed over a memorandum. He said he himself and authorities have held discussions with these people and succeeded in convincing them in support of the Act. He said largely there are apprehensions among people which are needed to be clarified. Addressing media persons, the Union MoS said that the citizenship to persecuted minorities should have been given long ago. Congress and opposition parties are raising hue and cry when the law has been enacted now, which in fact should have been done shortly after the independence.
 
The Union MoS while commenting on protests in educational institutions, said only in few universities an atmosphere against CAA and National Register of Citizens has been created. Of the 250 odd universities in the country, issues regarding CAA and NRC was raised in only 11, of which, in four universities the protests took place, for reasons which are obvious to the whole country. Gangwar said after the Independence, the population of minorities in Pakistan and Bangladesh were gradually dwindling due to atrocities and it was obvious India was the only nation capable of giving such people shelter. Answering a query on persecuted Muslims not included in the CAA, Gangwar said, Muslims are not minorities in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.”
 
Gangwar said Citizenship Amendment Act is for providing citizenship to those Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Christian and Buddhist minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who’re subjected to religious persecution and have sought refuge in India on or before 2014. It has nothing to do with the bonafide citizens of the country irrespective of their caste, creed of colour. BJP National Vice President Dr Raman Singh said cited the ordeal faced by the Pakistan’s first Law Minister Jogendra Nath Mandal, in support for the CAA. He said Jogendra Nath Mandal, a Scheduled Castes (Dalits) leader, who was Pakistan’s first Minister of Law and Labour. But after signing of Liaquat–Nehru bilateral treaty in 1950, the atrocities on minorities in Pakistan increased, against which Jogendranath raised his voice but was compelled to resign. He migrated to India after submitting his resignation to the then Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan, citing the anti-Hindu bias of Pakistani administration. It was unfortunate that Jogendranath Mandal later died in a refugee camp in West Bengal, added Dr Singh.