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ing the gathering after launching the will lose her nationality because of the
Sampark Abhiyan in support of the legislation. He also challenged Con-
Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) gress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Pri-
in Panchkula. He explained that the yanka Gandhi to show one clause in
Parliament had recently passed Citi- the CAA under which anyone is going
zenship Amendment Act to provide to lose Indian citizenship.”These are
citizenship of India to the minorities mostly political protests. Some people
coming to India from neighbouring are also misguided but we are trying to
countries that are being oppressed convince them,” he said.
there in the name of religion. But few The minister said under the CAA, the
opposition parties are misguiding the government wants to give citizenship
people of the country by spreading to persecuted minorities of Pakistan,
false information without understand- Bangladesh and Afghanistan.”I want
ing the provisions of the Act. to say clearly that there is no provi-
sion in the CAA in which one can lose
hattar stressed that this is not citizenship,” he said. Shah said the CAA
a new Act as it had come into provides for granting citizenship to ref-
K force in the year 1955 itself, ac- To bring out the positive ugees from the three countries. “I say
cording to which minority communi- with full firmness that these refugee
ties like Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Par- aspects of the Citizenship brothers who have come to India be-
si and Christian who are oppressed in Amendment Act (CAA) long to us and it is the responsibility of
Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh the government of India to give them a
in the name of religion come to India to the public, the BJP respectable place in India,” he declared.
to lead a respectable life. In Haryana, is organising a public of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi
According to the CAA, members
them citizenship, he added. awareness campaign across and Christian communities who have
According to the Haryana CM, a new the country. Haryana BJP come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and
number- 8866288662 has been started Afghanistan till December 31, 2014 fac-
to register participation of people of is also holding various ing religious persecution there will not
Haryana in the Sampark Abhiyan in programmes under the ‘Jan be treated as illegal immigrants but be
support of Citizenship Amendment Act given Indian citizenship.
(CAA) at the Central Level. People can Jagaran Abhiyan’ in the Shah said the Census 2021 and the
give their consent in favour of Citizen- state including ‘door to door National Population Register (NPR),
ship Amendment Act (CAA) by giving which government plans to conduct
missed call on this number. campaign’ from January 5 to along with the house-listing phase of
Like the Chief Minister, other Har- 15. These include rallies and census from April to September 2020,
yana leaders, including Vidhan Sabha have nothing to do with the National
Speaker Gian Chand Gupta, Educa- marches in various parts of Register of Citizens (NRC).”Census and
tion Minister Kanwar Pal, former MLA the state NPR take place in the country every 10
Latika Sharma, Union Minister Rattan- years and this time also it is happening
lal Kataria, MP Naib Saini and District after 10 years. Congress has done this
President Mahendra Khadri carried out repeatedly but today, the Congress is
the campaign, while in Kurukshetra - opposing it,” he said. According to BJP
Youth and Sports Minister Sandeep Sin- working president JP Nadda, “Congress
gh and District President Dharmveer is creating misunderstanding over
Mirzapur carried out the campaign. CAA and trying to incite violence. We
The BJP is carrying out a similar will hold awareness programme in
campaign in favour of the CAA all Madhya Pradesh also.”
over the country. Earlier Home Min- Former state chief minister and sen-
ister Amit Shah said the CAA provides ior BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chauhan
for granting citizenship to refugees said, “This Act is about giving citizen-
from the three neighbouring Muslim ship and not taking it away. We will tell
countries. ``Protests against the CAA the truth to the public,’’ he said.
are mostly political,’’ Amit Shah had
remarked and insisted that no Indian LETTERS@TEHELKA.COM
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