Our Former PM’s Manmohan, Nehru Were In Favour Of Helping Minorities From Pak, Bangladesh: JP Nadda

Mumbai: Following the ongoing protests in some parts of the country against the Citizenship Amendment Act, BJP national president JP Nadda said that several former Congress prime ministers, including Jawaharlal Nehru and Manmohan Singh, were supporting minority refugees who came FROM Pakistan and Bangladesh.

“Nehruji has said that minorities who are being persecuted in Pakistan should be helped … Manmohan Singhji said in 2003 that Hindus are being persecuted in Bangladesh, and he said that the responsibility of settling them in India is our Should be, ”Nadda said in his first rally after being elected unopposed to the post of BJP national president.

Attacking the leaders further, especially from the ‘Dalit’ community opposing the CAA, Nadda said: “Today many big Dalit leaders are opposing the CAA. They do not know that 70 per cent of them (refugees) who have come to India are Dalits. They have been given the right to live in India. They have been given citizenship.”

The BJP president slammed the Congress, accusing it of “having no information about the CAA” and “spreading rumours” about the act.

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“His (Congress and other opposition parties) politics is over. He has realized that the country has changed now and is moving at a fast pace under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” Nadda said.

The CAA grants Indian citizenship to Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsi refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh, who came to India on or before December 31, 2014.

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