CAA should be scrapped: Digvijaya Singh in Rajya Sabha
New Delhi/UNI: Accusing the Government of having a crisis on credibility and trust, Congress lawmaker Digvijay Singh on Wednesday demanded in the Rajya Sabha that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) should be scrapped immediately to defuse tension and also announce that the National Population Register (NPR) is withdrawn
Participating in the debate on ‘Motion of Thanks’ on President Speech, he said that democracy is established by communication and the Government should speak to the women and students have been sitting on protests at Shaheen Bagh.
“An atmosphere of mistrusts has been created in the country and for this, the ruling party is responsible," he further said.
Referring to the peaceful protests against CAA and National Register of Citizens (NRC), Singh said that the unity in diversity is a major strength.
He also said that after abrogation of Article 370, a delegation of European Union had been taken over to Kashmir whereas the own countrymen are not allowed to go there.
"The Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad could visit his home town only after Supreme Court intervention and the three former Chief Ministers of the Kashmir have been kept under detention," Singh said.
Describing the poor economic condition of the country, the Congress lawmaker said that when the economic condition of the house becomes grim, the house owner has to sell gold of the house.
“The economic condition of the country has also been the same and Public Sector Units are being sold. Now, they have decided to sell BSNL and BPCL and around one lakh employees of BSNL and MTNL have literally have become jobless," Singh further said.
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