Muslims will face no loss due to CAA: RSS chief
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat, here on Wednesday stressed the need of National Register of Citizens (NRC) and justified the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) while asserting that the two frameworks do not create any Hindu-Muslim divide.
Mr Bhagawat who is on a two-day visit alleged that the communal narrative propagated around CAA-NRC has been created deliberately for political mileage.
Pointing out that no Muslim will face any setback due to CAA, Mr Bhagawat said that India does not need lessons on secularism, socialism, democracy from the world.
“This is in our tradition, in our blood. Our country has implemented these and kept them alive... CAA and NRC haven’t been formed against any citizen of India. Indian
Muslims will face no loss due to CAA.”
Regretting that the NRCCAA has been seen as tools for political mileage by many political forces, Mr Bhagwat reiterated, “Some people bring the narration along communal
lines. Such talks take place for political benefits, let it go on. But we’ve to be careful as citizens can see and understand the politics.”
Mr Bhagwat, after releasing a book, titled Citizenship debate over NRC and CAAAssam
the Politics of History said, “After Independence, the first Prime Minister of the country had said that minorities will be taken care of, and that has been done so far. We will continue to do so. We are abiding by that till today but Pakistan didn't.”
The citizenship law will provide protection to persecuted minorities in the neighbouring countries, the RSS chief underlined.
“We reach out to the majority communities, too, in these countries during a calamity .... So if there are some who wish to come to our country due to threats and fear, we will definitely have to help them out,” Mr Bhagwat said.
Referring to the NRC as an important document for any country, he said that all nations have the right to know who its citizens are.
“The matter is in the political domain as the government is involved in it... A section of people wants to get political mileage by creating a communal narrative around these two issues,” he added.
Mr Bhagwat arrived here on a two-day visit on Tuesday evening. He held a number of meetings with leaders of RSS in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Manipur. Organisational matters such as the welfare of the local population as well as the Covid-19 situation in the region was discussed in the meetings.
Mr Bhagwat is also scheduled to meet some political leaders during the trip. However, their names were not disclosed.
This is Mr Bhagwat’s first visit to Assam after the BJP returned to power in the state.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was also present in the book release ceremony. The RSS chief will be leaving for Chennai on Thursday.