BJP will implement NRC nationwide if voted to power in 2019: Shah
new delhi — The BJP on Monday hit out at the Congress over its stand on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and said that if voted to power in 2019 it shall run a country-wide campaign to implement NRC to identify and send back the infiltrators.
“After the BJP came to power in 2014, we have boosted the national security. We also implemented the NRC in Assam and identified 4 million infiltrators,” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah told the boothlevel workers of 230 Assembly constituencies of Madhya Pradesh through video conferencing.
Attacking Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Shah said, “The Congress opposed the NRC. They made it a human rights issue. The Congress and Rahul Gandhi should clear their stand over the NRC issue and tell the nation whether the infiltrators should be sent back to their countries or not.”
Shah said that people have faith in the Modi government and they would be voting for him
Amit Shah says the Congress party and Rahul Gandhi should clear their stand over the NRC issue. —
PTI file in 2019. “And once voted back to power, we shall run a countrywide campaign to send back the infiltrators,” he said, adding that the party was not bothered about vote bank politics.
The BJP Chief accused the Congress chief of sympathising with urban Maoists and said, “When Maharashtra government arrested a few urban Maoists, Congress president and their leaders took their side and opposed it.” — bhopal — Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath Monday said the BJP was “distorting” his party manifesto’s reference to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to divert public attention.
His statement comes a day after BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra, party vice-president Prabhat Jha and MP unit chief Rakesh Singh lashed out at the Congress for being “opposed to deity Ram and the RSS”.
“The BJP is intentionally fanning the RSS issue to divert people’s attention from the public welfare issues mentioned in our ‘Vachan Patra’ (document of pledges). In our manifesto, we have not mentioned that the RSS would be banned, nor do we have any such intention,” Nath told reporters here.
He asserted that neither the party nor he himself have said that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will be banned.
The Congress manifesto, released on Saturday, under a head titled ‘administration reforms’ reads, “The holding of RSS
Kamal Nath says that the BJP is distorting his manifesto’s reference to the RSS to divert public attention. —
in government premises would be banned and the order regarding relaxation given to public servants to attend them will be revoked”.
The Congress government had banned RSS activities in government premises in Madhya Pradesh in 1981. The ban was revived in 2000 by then chief minister Digvijaya Singh under the Civil Services Conduct Rule, senior journalist Rakesh Dixit said.
Thereafter, he said, the ban continued under BJP chief ministers Uma Bharti and Babulal Gaur, before incumbent Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan lifted the ban in September 2006, describing the RSS as a “socio-cultural organisation and not a political outfit”.
“BJP is trying to put words in our mouth.
“The RSS is free to hold its
(classes) except in government premises. People will decide whether the RSS is a cultural or political organisation. We do not want to get into it,” Nath clarified.
The Congress leader said the BJP was intentionally trying to create confusion so that the “peoplefriendly” points in the (Congress) agenda go ignored.
“The public is intelligent, it won’t be carried away with such tactics,” he remarked.
The Chhindwara MP said the Congress had incorporated the point (RSS issue) in their manifesto after getting suggestions that the RSS being held in tribal hostels and other government schools were hindering studies.
On the issue of the Ram temple, he said the BJP raises it when polls draw close. “Where was the BJP since last four and a half years? When elections are round the corner and six months are left for it, the BJP is remembering Ram Temple,” he said, adding the saffron party was running a smear campaign claiming that the Congress was against the (building of) Ram temple.
“This (RSS mention) is not an issue. I know (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi and (BJP president) Amit Shah very well. They turn a non-issue into an issue,” Congress spokesperson Shakti Singh Gohilhe told reporters here.
On Sunday, in a hurriedly convened press conference, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra had claimed that the Congress believed in
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“These are the very people who had earlier said that deity Ram did not exist, that he was a mythical character. That is why they were opposed to the construction of the Ram temple,” he had said. —