Country Doesn’t Need Citizenship Act, Our Protest Ideological: Swara Bhaskar
Condemning the new Citizenship Act, the actor said that it is only giving rise to fear among people of different communities
Mumbai: Along with thousands of protesters at Mumbai’s August Kranti Maidan, actor Swara Bhaskar on Thursday participated in a demonstration against the Citizenship Amendment Act and questioned the need for such legislation in the country.
“There is no need for CAA or NRC in this country. You have a process of granting citizenship to refugees and if you can grant citizenship to Adnan Sami on that basis then why can’t you grant citizenship to Hindu refugees on the basis of that same process? Why do you have to change the constitution,” Bhaskar told ANI.
Invoking Mahatma Gandhi, the actor said that the opposition the government is facing is only ideological.
The actor said, “There is a difference between protesting and abusing. This is ideological opposition. Gandhiji also opposed ideologically. We are raising slogans of ideological protest. It is part of democratic protest, there is no problem in such protests.”
He supported the demonstrations against the CAA and said that these demonstrations are not against democracy, but are reinforcing the values of democracy.
The actor told reporters, “These performances are for unity among Hindus, Muslims and other communities in the country. Do not paint these performances in one colour.”
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Condemning the new Citizenship Act, the actor said that it is only giving rise to fear among people of different communities.
“The problem will not only be faced by the Muslim community but by every underprivileged and other people of this country,” Bhaskar told ANI.
The CAA grants citizenship to non-Muslims of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh who fled religious persecution and arrived in India on or before December 31, 2014.
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