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Updated January 25th, 2020 at 20:19 IST

Cong opposing CAA as it can't understand pain, suffering of immigrants: Raj BJP leader

Former Rajasthan minister and BJP leader Vasudev Devnani on Saturday said the Congress is opposing the amended citizenship law as it cannot understand the pain and suffering of immigrants

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Former Rajasthan minister and BJP leader Vasudev Devnani on Saturday said the Congress is opposing the amended citizenship law as it cannot understand the pain and suffering of immigrants. 

His remarks came after the Rajasthan assembly on Saturday passed a resolution urging the Centre to repeal the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). The CAA has been passed in Parliament and the President has signed it, but Congress does not want to implement it in Rajasthan, Devnani said.

READ: Raj Assembly Passes Resolution Against CAA, BJP Members Oppose

"My family has suffered because of the Partition of India on the basis of religion. The Congress cannot understand the pain and suffering of migrants. "The Congress should protest against the atrocities on Hindus (in country's where they are in minority) instead of the CAA that mandates to give them citizenship," he said in a statement. 

Members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities who have come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan till December 31, 2014 and facing religious persecution there will not be treated as illegal immigrants, and be given Indian citizenship, according to the CAA. Devnani accused the Congress of granting citizenship to only Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir in the garb of Article 35-A.

Hindus, who are minority in neighbouring countries, are facing consequences of the Congress's appeasement politics whereas the CAA is going to address all the issues of minorities who migrate to India for a better life, he said.  Devnani alleged that Congress is trying to take political mileage on the sensitive issue by bringing a resolution in the House.

READ: 'Rajasthan's Passage Of Anti-CAA Resolution Is A Murder Of Democracy': Gajendra Shekhawat

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Published January 25th, 2020 at 20:19 IST

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