Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday accused Congress president Rahul Gandhi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of playing with India’s sovereignty on the Assam NRC issue, saying citizens are the soul of the nation and not “imported vote banks”.
In a hard-hitting Facebook post, Jaitley accused Rahul Gandhi of taking a fringe position with regard to the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, which is contrarian to what was advocated by former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
“It (Congress) is now compromising the sovereignty of India. leaders like Rahul Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee must realise that India’s sovereignty is not a play thing. Sovereignty and citizenship are the soul of India. Imported vote banks are not,” Jaitley wrote in a post titled ‘National Register of Citizens - Sovereignty vs Vote Bank’.