Shocked the by the strong reaction on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the BJP has started a drive to train its members about the provisions of the act. On Saturday, a training session of leaders and office bearers was held at the headquarters of the state BJP in Dehradun. Senior party leaders gave an elaborate account of the provisions of the CAA on the occasion and a booklet on CAA was also distributed to the party men. A lecture on the subject was delivered by the state general secretary Anil Goyal.
Addressing the meeting, the president of the state unit of BJP, Ajay Bhatt said that CAA was brought by the BJP Government to pave the way for the citizenship of India to the minority Hindus of neighbouring countries who were discriminated and forced to convert. He exhorted the party workers to put forward their views on CAA aggressively without being bogged down. Bhatt said that confusion on CAA is being deliberately created by the opposition. He added that leaders of the opposition are under duress by ever increasing popularity of Prime Minster Narendra Modi and there is similarity in the statements of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and leaders of opposition in India on subjects like CAA, article 370, Ram temple and surgical strikes. Bhatt asked the party workers not to get discouraged under any circumstance and said that party takes care of its workers and places him/ her on respectable posts.
The general secretary organisation of the party, Ajay Kumar said that the party workers should ensure that forms for the citizenship of the Hindu refugees residing in the Udham Singh Nagar district are filled. He directed that the working committees on every Mandal should be constituted and coordinators in every Mandal should be appointed. Kumar also exhorted the party workers to celebrate the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on a grand scale.
The meeting was coordinated by the state general secretary Khajan Das. Large number of party leaders, office bearers and party workers attended the meeting.