BJP chief Rajnath Singh on Sunday asked the Centre to grant citizenship to Hindu families who have migrated from Pakistan after facing hardship there and have now refused to go back.
“The Government should immediately formulate a relief and rehabilitation policy for these families. Steps should be taken to provide shelter to them in India,” Singh said after meeting these Hindu families in a camp at Bijwasan on Sunday.
Singh also demanded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to visit these families to get a first hand account of miseries faced by them.
On Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh’s attack in lahore jail, the BJP chief said had India been strong in protesting against earlier similar incidents in Pakistan, no one could have dared to attack him.
“Sarabjit was attacked in a Pakistani jail and it is condemnable. It is the responsibility of the country concerned to provide security to its prisoners but the way Sarabjit was attacked is unfortunate and I condemn it. But it is not the first instance. Before this, Chamel Singh and somebody called lakshman, who was arrested, were attacked inside jail and died later but the government of Pakistan did nothing,” Singh said at a different function earlier.
The BJP chief said that when a small country like Pakistan violates the border and kills Indian jawans. “We should strongly protest but we are never able to do that,” Singh said.