nState Congress on Monday demanded of Union Home Minister Amit Shah to ‘shun adamancy’ and talk to anti Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) agitators to end the deadlock over the issue.
Shah will visit the state on Tuesday.
PCC state general secretary and chairperson of its communication wing Shailesh Nitin Trivedi, terming the new act detrimental to constitutional values framed by B R Ambedkar, demanded that Shah should hold talks with anti-CAA agitators to end the deadlock over the CAA as well as the National Register of Citizen (NRC).
Trivedi further claimed that in order to divert the attention from the nationwide economic slowdown, unemployment, skyrocketing price hike, the Narendra Modi-led Union government raked up the trivial issues of CAA and NRC.
Similar to demonetization, the Modi government once again unnecessarily forcing the people of the country to stand in queue for proving their citizenship, he alleged.
Actually by playing divisive politics the Modi government is trying to polarize the country on religious ground for their political gains, he added.
He further stated that the central zonal council meet in Raipur will be fruitful and demanded of Union Home Minister Shah to make important declaration about the CAA and NRC in Chhattisgarh to enhance the peaceful and glorious traditions of the state.