Stating that after partition India took care of minorities but Pakistan did not do so, RSS head Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday said the CAA-NRC (Citizenship Amendment Act-National Register of Citizens) Is not against anyone and has nothing to do with Muslim citizens of India.
Bhagwat said "secularism" is a concept practised by Indian civilisation long before it was born in the modern sense of the term. He said some communities always want others to be like them whereas India from time immemorial respected diversity.
He said no one in India need to fear from the CAA-NRC .
“The CAA-NRC is not a law made against any Indian citizen. Muslim citizens of India will not be harmed by the CAA. Some people have made it a Hindu-Muslim issue to take political benefits. For political gains, both subjects [CAA-NRC] have been made the subject of Hindu-Muslim. It is not the subject of Hindu-Muslim,” Bhagwat said.
The RSS leader was speaking at the launch of a book titled, “Citizenship Debate over NRC and CAA, Assam and the Politics of History” authored by Nani Gopal Mahanta in Guwahati. The event was also attended by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Bhagwat said that after the partition of India, the new nations had promised to take care of their respective minority communities.
“We are following it till today. But Pakistan did not. All the people fought against the British with the dream that there would be an independent country.
Consent of [Indian] people was not taken at the time of partition of the country. If consensus had been sought at that time, the country would not have been partitioned. But the leaders took the decision and the public accepted it,” he said.
“A large number of people had to be evicted [from their homes] after the partition decision. Even today, these people are getting evicted. What is their fault? Who will think about them? It’s our moral duty to help those people,” Mohan Bhagwat said.
“We don’t have any problems with any religion, language or creed. The problem starts when someone with the intent of domination tries to impose uniformity, ” said the RSS leader.
“The NRC is a method to know that who is the citizen of our country. It is not against any particular religion. In the politics of the country, it will be considered only according to the political mileage. Some people will bring this on communal lines. They make this a Hindu-Muslim issue, but this is not a Hindu-Muslim issue,” he said.