‘CAA will never harm interests OF NORTH-EAST’

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BJP National Working President Shri J P Nadda on 04 January, 2020 said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has no knowledge about the Citizenship Amendment Act. Shri Nadda said it at a mammoth rally of booth-level presidents of BJP in Guwahati, Assam.

“There is fault in Rahul Gandhi’s thinking as you are inspired only by politics. You don’t see the nation, but see only vote-bank politics which you put above the nation. For BJP, the country is above vote as we are inspired by love for the nation,” he asserted.

Keeping up his attack on the Congress, the BJP Working President said, “The Assam Accord was signed in 1985 and you slept till 2017 despite ruling the country for 70 year. You even had a chief minister here. But BJP came and woke you. You are in pain because the chair was taken away from you”, Shri Nadda said.

He also challenged the Congress leaders to go to the camps where non-Muslims who fled Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh due to religious persecution in those countries are staying to see for themselves their condition.

The BJP Working President referred to Mahatma Gandhi saying shelter should be given to such persecuted people in India, followed by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wanting to give relief funds to them and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying arrangements be made for them in India.

“Where will these people who fled to India go? Shri Narendra Modi and Shri Amit Shah brought the amendment in the Act to allow them to live with dignity and honor”, Shri Nadda said.

He sought to allay the fears of the people of Assam that CAA will threaten their language, identity and culture. He said when the amended act is implemented, clause 6 of Assam Accord granting them constitutional safeguard will be implemented in letter and spirit as it will be “the responsibility of BJP to do so”.
He assured the people that CAA will never harm their interests but safeguard them.