The Bengal BJP on Monday took out a massive pro-CAA and NRC rally in Kolkata from where senior BJP leader and MP JP Nadda launched a stringent attack on the Congress and subsequently Trinamool Congress for dividing the country along two-nation theory but failing to provide citizenship to the lakhs of persecuted members of the minority Hindu, Sikh, Parsi, as also Dalit communities who migrated to India from neighbouring Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Launching a no-holds-barred attack on the Congress, he said the party had even “defied Mahatma Gandhi who proposed providing citizenship to the persecuted people in these neighbouring countries… Narendra Modi has complied with the instructions of Mahatma Gandhi after so many years and now they (Congress) are condemning him.”
On India’s tolerant culture, he said, “After the Partition we made India a secular country. But Pakistan and Bangladesh became Islamic republics. Even the promises made in Nehru-Liaquat pact to protect the minorities of each country was not fulfilled as a result of which the number of Hindus in Pakistan dwindled from 23 per cent to 3 per cent; where as in India the number of minorities went up from 11per cent in 1951 to 14.5 per cent. Is it not a sign of a tolerant culture?”
The Chief Minister had sought the blessings of the Matua, Rajbanshi and other communities that had migrated from Bangladesh but “she has never bothered to provide them the right to citizenship. And today she is opposing the Act that is completing her unfulfilled promise. We want to ask in whose interest she is doing this?” he said. On the CAA Nadda said that the new Act “does not speak of taking away citizenship but providing it he said wondering why. But Mamata Banerjee has made it a point to oppose it. In fact she has made it a point to oppose every decision taken by the Modi Government. She opposed, Triple Talaq Act, she opposed abrogation of Article, she is opposing CAA.
“We want to ask why is she playing to the gallery of a particular section of the people? We want to ask why she is playing the vote bank politics?” Saying that Bengal would give a befitting reply to the Chief Minister for her vote bank politics he said in 2019 general elections his party got 18 out of 42 Parliamentary seats which will translate into a victory for the saffron outfit in the 2021 Assembly elections.
