Kejriwal furious over CAA, urges people to vote against BJP in ’24
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act ahead of the Lok Sabha polls was “dirty vote bank politics” of the BJP and asserted that people want this law to be repealed.
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva, meanwhile, hit back at Mr Kejriwal, charging he has hurt the sentiments of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, and Christian refugees living in the country.
At a press conference, the AAP supremo said, “With this law (CAA), the BJP government at the Centre has opened the floodgates for the arrival of a large number of poor minorities from Pakistan and Bangladesh into India.”
Even if 1.5 crore of the minorities in neighbouring countries come to India following the implementation of the CAA, a dangerous situation will arise, he claimed.
“It will be a migration bigger than that of 1947... Law and order will go for a toss. There could be an increase in rape and dacoity,” said Mr Kejriwal.
There are 3.5 crore minorities in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh, he said and alleged, “The BJP wants to spend the money of our people in settling poor migrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh by giving them houses and jobs here.”
He claimed that the BJP stands to gain in the coming elections as poor minorities from the neighbouring countries settling in India will become its vote bank.
The country demands scrapping of CAA, he said and asked people to vote against the BJP if the law is not repealed.
The AAP national convener said that had the BJP government at the Centre done its work in its 10-year rule, there would have been no need for it to implement CAA ahead of the polls.
“On one hand there is a huge army of unemployed in the country and the BJP government in Haryana is sending youths to die in Israel where a war is going on. On the other hand, the BJP wants to settle Pakistanis in India and provide employment to their children,” he said.
“What kind of nonsense is this to bring people from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan to India and give the rightful employment of our children to them,” Mr Kejriwal charged, adding, “In the last 10 years, 11 lakh industrialists and businessmen left India. If the BJP must bring people to the country, it should bring them back to provide jobs.”