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Why not include Muslims? BJP's Chandra Bose questions CAA

| @indiablooms | Dec 24, 2019, at 10:47 am

Kolkata/IBNS: At a time the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is holding rallies in support of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, party leader Chandra Bose has questioned the new controversial citizenship law which excluded Muslims or the majority community of the three neighbouring nations.

"If #CAA2019 is not related to any religion why are we stating - Hindu,Sikh,Boudha, Christians, Parsis & Jains only! Why not include #Muslims as well? Let's be transparent" Bose, who is the West Bengal BJP vice president, tweeted.

"Don't equate India or compare it with any other nation- as it's a nation Open to all religions and communities" the leader further said.

The CAA is a law which will grant citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, Parsi, Jain but not Muslim refugees who came to India from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan before 2015.

Countering Union Home Minister Amit Shah's statement where he said the six communities have been chosen as they are the minorities in the neighbouring nations, Bose said in a latest tweeted, "If Muslims are not being persecuted in their home country they would not come,so there's no harm in including them. However, this is not entirely true- what about Baluch who live in Pakistan & Afghanistan? What about Ahwadiyya in Pakistan?"

BJP working president Jagat Prakash Nadda on Monday held a massive rally from central to north Kolkata in support of the CAA and trained his guns at the Opposition particularly West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.

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