DO CONG, SP, BSP WANT BANGLA INFILTRATORS IN INDIA, ASKS SHAH

BJP chief dares Congress to clear stand on OBC Bill

Charging the opposition with playing vote bank politics on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) issue, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah on Sunday asked whether the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Congress wanted Bangladeshi infiltrators to stay in India.

“We have brought the NRC. Do the Congress, the SP and the BSP want Bangladeshi intruders to stay in the country? I know the people of UP don’t want the Bangladesh infiltrators here. Every Bangladeshi infiltrator should be thrown out of the country,” he said.

Shah was addressing a huge gathering at a ceremony to mark the renaming of the Mughalsarai railway junction as Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyaya junction. He also dared the Congress to clear its stand in the Rajya Sabha on the amended OBC Bill, saying it will expose whether the party was really for the backward communities.

DEEN DAYAL UPADHYAYA NAGAR (MUGHALSARAI):Charging the opposition with playing vote bank politics on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) issue, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah on Sunday asked whether the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Congress wanted Bangladeshi infiltrators to stay in India.

“Complying with orders of the Supreme Court, we have brought the NRC. Mamata Banerjee says NRC should not be there. Congress says there is no need for it. For the last four days, I am asking Rahul Baba (Congress president Rahul Gandhi) whether NRC Should be there or not. Rahul ji is not responding,” he said.

“We have brought the NRC. Do the Congress, the SP and the BSP want Bangladeshi intruders to stay in the country? I know the people of UP don’t want the Bangladesh infiltrators here. Every Bangladeshi infiltrator should be thrown out of the country,” he said. Shah was addressing a huge gathering at a ceremony to mark the renaming of the Mughalsarai railway junction as Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyaya junction.

He also dared the Congress to clear its stand in the Rajya Sabha on the amended OBC Bill, saying it will expose whether the party was really for the backward communities.The Constitution (123rd Amendment) Bill, 2017, commonly known as OBC Bill, was passed in the Lok Sabha on August 2 and will now go to the Rajya Sabha for passage.

The proposed legislation seeks to grant the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) constitutional status on a par with National Commissions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. “The Modi government has got the OBC Bill passed in the Lok Sabha. This will go to the Rajya Sabha. Will (Congress president) Rahul Gandhi clear his stand before the country that whether his party will help in the passage of the bill in the Rajya Sabha or not. This will make it clear whether the Congress is really for the welfare of the backward classes,” Shah said.

“The opposition parties are creating a misconception. What will happen if the SP and the BSP come together? If Bua (BSP chief Mayawati)-Babua (SP chief Akhilesh Yadav) come together, what will happen in UP? Even if the Congress joins hand with the SP and the BSP, there will be no impact. The BJP will win 74 seats in UP. In the plains of the Ganga and the Yamuna, the BJP’s saffron will wave (hold sway) in 2019,” he said.

“I want to make it clear, that like 2014, the way to New Delhi will go through UP in 2019 too,” he said. He claimed the Modi government spent more funds for the development of eastern UP in the last four years than the Congress did in the last 70 years.

The BJP chief blamed the previous UPA government for not giving sufficient funds for UP during its 10- year rule. “The UPA government at the Centre ran with the support of the SP and the BSP. It gave Rs 3.30 lakh crore to UP in 10 years, while the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre gave Rs 8.8 lakh crore in the last four years,” Shah said.

He accused the previous governments of neglecting development of the state and not doing anything to bring investment. He said the country’s development was not possible without development of UP and Purvanchal (eastern UP).