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CAB: Shiv Sena opposes voting rights for minorities from Islamic nations, says they are the ‘headmaster’ of the school BJP is studying in

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CAB: Shiv Sena opposes voting rights for minorities from Islamic nations, says they are the ‘headmaster’ of the school BJP is studying in

On Wednesday, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut stated that his party did not need validation or lesson from anyone on patriotism while taking a dig at its former alliance partner BJP claiming that he was the headmaster of the “Hindutva” school from where BJP is still studying.

Speaking in the Rajya Sabha on the historic Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019, Sanjay Raut said nobody needs to teach Shiv Sena a lesson on patriotism. We are the headmaster of the school of Hindutva where you are studying, he added.

He added that the past headmasters of the school have been Balasaheb Thackeray, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee all of whom are respected by Shiv Sena.


Reacting to PM Modi’s address to BJP MPs earlier today in which he said that Opposition is speaking Pakistan’s language on the CAB, Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut has said, “We are not Pakistani citizens. This House is not of Pakistani citizens.”

Raut said that if the government was so serious and strong against Pakistan, they should end Pakistan. He also said that his party has set high hopes on Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to protect minority brothers and sisters who are currently being persecuted in Pakistan.

He also raised his previous demand stating that the government should provide citizenship to the persecuted minorities but should not give them any voting rights.

“I accept that the rights of our minority brothers in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are violated and they should be protected. But, we should not play politics in their name,” he added.

Read: Shiv Sena wants no voting rights for Hindus taking citizenship of India after facing persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan

Shiv Sena had done flip-flop over their stand on the CAB. On Monday, they had supported the bill, but on Tuesday, presumably after their new ally Congress’ displeasure over their support to CAB, they did a U-turn and started hinting that they may not support it in the Rajya Sabha.

The bill which seeks to make it easier for non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who entered the country before 2015 to become Indian citizens was passed in Lok Sabha on Monday.

Earlier in the day, Sanjay Raut had said the dynamics in the Rajya Sabha were different from that of the Lok Sabha and asserted that the government will have to answer their queries before they can expect support.

It was reported that the Shiv Sena may revise its stand on the citizenship bill after Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had stated that they will not give support to the bill unless things are clear. “They (government) should make changes when they bring the bill to the Rajya Sabha,” Uddhav had asserted on Wednesday morning.

With three seats in Rajya Sabha, Shiv Sena has not yet revealed what stand it will take on Citizenship Bill in Rajya Sabha. With the current strength in the Rajya Sabha, the bill will need to cross the halfway mark of 121 to pass.

Here’s why Amit Shah was right when he said Rohingyas will never be accepted in India and UNHRC cannot object

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Here’s why Amit Shah was right when he said Rohingyas will never be accepted in India and UNHRC cannot object

The demand for the acceptance of Rohingyas again gave rise to shrill cries during the Citizenship Amendment Bill debate. Home Minister Amit Shah, for his part, made it clear that India will never accept Rohingyas in the country and said that the Rohingyas come to India through Bangladesh.

Under such circumstances, as it turns out, India is not bound even by international norms to accept Rohingyas. The manner in which Rohingyas enter India through Bangladesh, as Amit Shah asserted on the Floor of the House, is referred to as ‘Onward Movement’.

Read: #CABNRCSatyagraha: How the self-appointed custodians of secular fabric of India are trying to save the Rohingyas

‘Onward movement’ refers to the movement by refugees and asylum-seekers from one country where they enjoyed international protection or could have sought and received such international protection, to another where they may request it. It is conspicuously an irregular movement that is not contrary to the normal course of action by refugees.

Onward Movement guidelines

The UNHCR notes, “International refugee law does not confer upon refugees the right to choose their country of asylum. It also does not authorize their irregular movement between successive countries solely in order to benefit from more favourable conditions.”

Read: Rohingyas pose a serious threat to national security, India should never let them in

It also states, “The right of refugees and asylum-seekers to enter the territory of States derives from the international legal regime for the protection of refugees, where they do not otherwise have lawful permission to do so. It is thus legitimate for States to require compliance with national laws and processes governing the identification and recognition of refugees. Moreover, States may lawfully take measures against individuals who enter or stay in their territory in an irregular manner, including in some circumstances against refugees and asylum-seekers, subject to legal safeguards.”

Onward Movement guidelines

Notably, the UNHCR emphasizes the fact that refugees and asylum-seekers also have duties and obligations towards the state they enter. It also mentions that the various problems that arise as a consequence of Onward Movement. Furthermore, it also concedes that the States have a right to pursue legal measures against such individuals for violating domestic laws.

Read: Saudi Arabia deporting hundreds of Rohingyas to Bangladesh, UNHRC condemns India for deporting 5

It is important to remember here that India is not a party to the 1951 Convention on Refugees and neither the 1967 Protocol. Therefore, no international convention is binding on India. Even if we take into account the international conventions, the Rohingyas are clearly bypassing a safe haven in the form of Bangladesh to reach India for the purpose of gaining material benefits. Thus, quite clearly, it makes them economic migrants when they enter India and not persecuted minorities.

Furthermore, Rohingyas have been rejected by Thailand along with Malaysia and Indonesia, both of which are Islamic countries. Rohingyas have also massacred Hindus in the Rakhine State of Myanmar. Thus, given India’s history with partition, there is no valid reason for accepting a population that poses a security threat to India.

The CPIM wanted citizenship rights for Bengali Hindus in 2012 before its U-Turn seven years later: Here is all you need to know

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The CPIM wanted citizenship rights for Bengali Hindus in 2012 before its U-Turn seven years later: Here is all you need to know

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) may be vehemently against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) now but there was a time when it was in favour of according citizenship rights to Bengali Hindus from Bangladesh. It was not in some distant past but as recent as 2012 that the CPIM demanded an amendment to the Citizenship Act so that Bengali Hindus from Bangladesh could live a life of dignity in India.

In a resolution adopted at the 20th Congress of the CPI(M) in April 2012, the party demanded that “a suitable amendment in Clause 2 (i) (b) of the said Citizenship Act in relation to the Bangladesh minority community refugees. This must be done while protecting the Assam accord which is relevant to the specific situation in Assam. It demands that the Central Government bring such an amendment in the forthcoming budget session of Parliament.”

In the said resolution, the CPI(M) also recalled the Parliamentary discussion on the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2003, when “all political parties from across the spectrum had supported an amendment to protect these citizens who are victims of historical circumstances.” The party expressed sorrow that “even after so many years the law considers them illegal migrants. There are cases where they have been treated like criminals.”

In the presumed discussion referred to by the CPI(M), former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, who was then the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, said, “It is our moral obligation that if circumstances force people, these unfortunate people, to seek refuge in our country, our approach to granting citizenship to these unfortunate persons should be more liberal”.

Read: Citizenship Amendment Bill has exposed Indian ‘liberals’ like never before

A lot of water has flown under the bridge since then. Manmohan Singh’s party now compares the efforts to grant persecuted minorities from the neighbouring Islamic States to an ‘ethnic cleansing’ of people from the North East. Similarly, CPI(M) stalwart Sitaram Yechury calls the CAB a “bill of Jinnah and Savarkar’s dreams”.


In a similar vein, Pinarayi Vijayan, the Communist Chief Minister of Kerala, called it a devious plan to divide people along religious lines. He said, “The Constitution of India guarantees the right to citizenship for all Indians; irrespective of their religion, caste, language, culture, gender or profession. This very right is being made void by the Citizenship Amendment Bill. A move to decide citizenship on the basis of religion amounts to a rejection of the Constitution. This is an exercise to divide people on communal lines. The bill, which aims to enervate our secular unity, was passed by the Lok Sabha with unusual haste and tenacity.”

Read: In his quest to oppose CAB, TMC’s Derek O Brian ends up justifying CAB by giving an example of his own family: Read how

In 2012, the party had declared, “It assures these communities the support of the CPI (M) in their struggle for their genuine demands.” However, seven years later, such solemn vows have been forsaken for the purpose of electoral politics. It appears that the CPI(M) is not opposed to the CAB in principle, it’s opposing it vociferously only because it’s the BJP which has tabled the Bill and the electoral benefits will accordingly go to the Saffron Party.

The CPI(M) and Congress party’s newfound opposition to the Bill does call into question their integrity and the seriousness of their promises. In seven years, the CPI(M) has abandoned the Bengali Hindus from Bangladesh it claimed to care about so much. The Congress, of course, had abandoned Hindus in general much earlier.

In his quest to oppose CAB, TMC’s Derek O Brian ends up justifying CAB by giving an example of his own family: Read how

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In his quest to oppose CAB, TMC’s Derek O Brian ends up justifying CAB by giving an example of his own family: Read how

The Citizenship Amendment bill after getting a clear passage in the Lok Sabha on December 9 has been tabled today in the Rajya Sabha. The usual elements from the Opposition side have been debating on how the bill is ‘anti-Indian’ and ‘unconstitutional’.

However, in their haste to oppose the bill, TMC MP Derek O Brien slipped up and ended up justifying why the Citizenship Amendment Bill is necessary and the rationale behind it by citing an example of his own family.

TMC leader and member of the Rajya Sabha, Derek O’ Brien, in his speech in the Rajya Sabha today, was all out criticising the Modi government and its decision to bring in the Citizenship Amendment Bill which seeks to grant citizenship to persecuted minorities belonging to the three neighbouring Islamic countries – Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

While he spoke on how the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill will be separating people from their nation, and that this bill is anti-Bengali and anti-Indian, towards the end of his speech he gave the example of his own family.

Read: Citizenship Amendment Bill – Myths and lies propagated against it, and the facts

The TMC leader said that a part of his family who went to West Pakistan during the partition in 1947, have either migrated to Canada or US or had to convert to Islam. By divulging this bitter truth about his own family, Derek O’ Brien inadvertently, goes on to prove exactly why implementing the Citizenship Amendment bill becomes necessary.

He said that his family members who were left behind in Pakistan had to convert to Islam.

This is exactly what happens to the Hindu minorities living in Pakistan, Bangladesh or Afghanistan which the government attempts to pull the plugs on, by introducing this bill. CAB becomes necessary so that such minority Hindu’s can be saved from this forced persecution, in the neighbouring countries, on the pretext of their religion.

The proposed legislation applies to those who were forced to seek shelter in India due to persecution on the ground of religion. It aims to protect such people from proceedings of illegal migration. The cut-off date for citizenship is December 31, 2014, which means the applicant should have entered India on or before that date.

Read: Harish Salve defends CAB, says bill not anti-Muslim, does not violate articles 14, 15 or 21 of the Indian constitution: Read details

Religious discrimination is a serious issue in modern-day Pakistan and other neighbouring Islamic countries. Attacks on religious minorities in these countries have claimed hundreds of lives. Women belonging to minority communities have been targets of forced conversions rape and forced marriages.

For example, the Bhola rape and violence incident that the Home Minister mentioned in his Lok Sabha speech. The incident dates back to the year 2001, where, under a well-articulated attack in Bhola districts, Lalmohan region, over 200 Hindu women were raped and tortured by Muslim men in Bangladesh.

In several places, like Bagerhat, Barisal, Bogra, Brahmanbaria, Chitgaon, Fani, Ghazipur, Jesor, Khulna, Munshiganj, Bhola, Narayanganj, and Sirajganj districts, Hindus were targeted in orchestrated attacks by Muslim gangs.

Similar barbarity is also very common in Pakistan. Yesterday, we reported how a 14-year-old Christian girl from Karachi was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married off to her captor Abdul Jabbar.

After the court hearing, the victim’s distraught mother asked if the Christian women in Pakistan should kill their daughters if kidnapping and conversion are what they are destined for.

Girls from other minority groups aren’t safe in Pakistan either. In a similar incident, a young Hindu girl named Chandri Kolhi from Noukot, Mirpurkhas, was allegedly abducted, converted and married to Allah Dino recently.

Earlier, Jagjit Kaur, a Sikh girl was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam in Nankana Sahib which had caused a huge uproar. In another horrific incident, a 13-year-old Pooja Sotahar Kumari, daughter of Fatan Rathore, resident of village Bakhsho Laghari in Hyderabad district’s Hosri Taluka, was kidnapped, forcefully converted and subsequently married off to a man identified as Syed Irshad Shah.

To safeguard themselves and their devastated family members from this persecution, thousands of Hindu, Sikh, Jain and Christian migrants from Pakistan have been living as refugees in border states.

Under existing laws, the process of being eligible and finally getting Indian citizenship is an exhaustive one, which not only deprives them of education, jobs and government’s welfare schemes but also keeps them from social and financial mobility. If the CAB is passed, it will bring a world of positive changes for these people who had to leave their homes over religious persecution.

227 foreigners from Assam deported to their country of origin in 2019: Minister Nityanand Rai in Lok Sabha

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227 foreigners from Assam deported to their country of origin in 2019: Minister Nityanand Rai in Lok Sabha

Responding to a written question, Union Minister Nityanand Rai said that 227 foreigners were expatriated to their country of origin as of December 5, 2019, while a total of 289 declared foreigners were detained in Assam in 2019, as reported by Times of India.

According to the information made available by the Assam government, as many as 181 declared foreigners and 44 convicted foreigners had completed more than three years in detention.

Furthermore, 128 detainees under Foreigners Act who had completed more than three years in detention centres had been released in accordance with the SC order dated 10/5/2019.

MoS Home Nityanand Rai responded to the question during Zero Hour in Lok Sabha. The minister also informed the parliament that among the foreigners deported this year, four were Bangladeshi nationals and two were Afghans.

About 1.29 lakh people have been pronounced as foreigners by various foreigners’ tribunals in Assam till October this year, Rai said on Tuesday. He also mentioned that 1.14 lakh people who had opposed their status as foreigners were declared as Indian citizens.

Rai said that as many as 4,68,905 cases were sent to the foreigners’ tribunals in Assam as of October 2019. The Foreigners Tribunals in Assam were set up in conformity to the provisions of the Foreigners Act, 1946 and The Foreigners (Tribunals) Order, 1964.

Earlier in August, the final NRC list published in Assam excluded 19 lakh people, triggering massive outrage across the state. Many organisations in Assam were dissatisfied with the low figures of exclusion. They argued that the number of people excluded in the NRC is much less than the estimated number of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh living in the state.

Citizenship Amendment Bill debate: Opposition speaking the same language as Pakistan, says PM Modi

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Citizenship Amendment Bill debate: Opposition speaking the same language as Pakistan, says PM Modi

Addressing the BJP parliamentary party meet ahead of the debate in Rajya Sabha over the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that some Opposition parties were speaking the same language as Pakistan, “including the full stop and comma”.

Likening the bill to the government’s decision to nullify Article 370, Modi said it will provide permanent relief to minorities of neighbouring countries who arrived in India fleeing religious persecution.

Without taking any particular name, Modi asked the MPs to expose the opposition parties on the issue in the Rajya Sabha today.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi also quoted Modi as saying: “CAB will be a law written in golden letters” and they were confident of passing it with a simple majority. “Persecuted minorities will not only get citizenship but also have permanent residency.”

While Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan had gone on a deranged rant, opposing the passage of CAB in Lok Sabha, invoking ‘bilateral agreements’, various Opposition parties, including Congress, Trinamool Congress, NCP, DMK had also protested against the bill.

The CAB seeks to provide Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees coming from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan on or before December 31, 2014, after facing religious persecution there. The Bill is being tabled today in the Rajya Sabha by HM Amit Shah.

The historic bill swept through the Lok Sabha, on December 9, Monday, with 311 MPs of Lok Sabha voting in favour of it, while 80, voting against it in the division of votes, despite the brouhaha created by the Opposition and widespread protests in the Northeast.

The Opposition parties have called the legislation discriminatory and in violation of the principles of equality and secularism.

On Wednesday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the bill was an attempt to “ethnically cleanse the Northeast”. “The CAB is an attempt by Modi-Shah Govt to ethnically cleanse the North East. It is a criminal attack on the North East, their way of life and the idea of India. I stand in solidarity with the people of the North East and am at their service.”

Similarly, AIMIM chief, Asududdin Owaisi went a step ahead and compared CAB to Nuremberg race laws and Amit Shah to Hitler. After spewing venom against Amit Shah, Owaisi tore copy of CAB in Lok Sabha.

Likewise, the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday gave a clarion call to oppose NRC and Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and said not a single citizen of the country will be allowed to turn into a refugee. Giving assurances that NRC and CAB will be never allowed in Bengal as long as the TMC is in power, Mamata Banerjee said NRC and CAB are both two sides of a coin.

Will legalise business, marriage and children of refugees staying in India: Amit Shah lists benefits under CAB

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Will legalise business, marriage and children of refugees staying in India: Amit Shah lists benefits under CAB

Union Home Minister Amit Shah tabled the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 in the upper house of the parliament today. The Bill was earlier passed in the Lok Sabha with 311 members voting in favour of the bill while 80 voted against it.

Addressing the Rajya Sabha, Amit Shah first took the opportunity to rubbished the rumours doing the rounds about the Muslim population of the country being adversely affected by the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill. “I want to assure everyone that Muslims living in India will not be affected by this bill. They were, are and will remain the citizen of this country and our government is committed for their protection,” Shah said.

Read: Citizenship Amendment Bill – Myths and lies propagated against it, and the facts

The Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 seeks to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955, in order to grant Indian nationality to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians, who come to India because of religious persecution in Islamic countries of Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan even if they do not possess proper documents. Some of the provisions of the bill as listed down by Shah in Rajya Sabha today are as follows:

  1. Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Christians, Jains and Buddhists refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who have come to India without a passport, visa or other legal document or their passport and visa have expired will not be considered as illegal immigrants.
  2. According to the new provision 6(B) included in the CAB 2019, if the refugees belonging to the above 6 religious groups follow the due procedures and apply for the citizenship, they will be granted the Indian citizenship.
  3. There is also a provision for those refugees who have complied by the rules of Section 5/Schedule 3 of the Citizenship Act, 1955 and have procured citizenship of the country, they will be granted the citizenship from the day they have come to India and thus will be immune from facing legal consequences in future.
  4. The Bill also includes a special provision that invalidates all the pending infiltration/citizenship cases against such refugees residing in India. All the cases of illegal immigration/citizenship will be dropped and the refugees will not have to face the legal proceedings any longer.
  5. There is also a provision in the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 that if an applicant is availing any kinds of rights and privileges already, they will not be deprived of their privileges. The Bill seeks to regularise marriage, business, children etc. of the refugees following their immigration to India.
  6. According to Schedule 6, the bill will not be applicable on all the states of the North-East-Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura and Manipur. In addition to this, Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation Act 1973, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and most areas of Nagaland and Manipur, the provision will not be applicable.

Read: Pakistani Hindu refugees staying across India cheer for Citizenship Bill, thank PM Modi, Amit Shah

Enumerating these 6 benefits that the persecuted minorities will get in India after getting citizenship under the citizenship amendment bill, Amit Shah spoke about how this is righting a historical wrong and how it is set to benefits several such people who have been persecuted in neighbouring Islamic nations.

Pakistani Hindu refugees staying across India cheer for Citizenship Bill, thank PM Modi, Amit Shah

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Pakistani Hindu refugees staying across India cheer for Citizenship Bill, thank PM Modi, Amit Shah

The passage of Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in Lok Sabha has given hope and a lifeline to persecuted Hindus of Pakistan, who are currently living in the country as refugees.

Following the passing of the bill in the lower house, Pakistani Hindus living in Rajasthan have thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah for bringing the historic bill to grant citizenship to persecuted minorities belonging to the three neighbouring countries – Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

Currently, there are around 25,000 non-Indian citizens in Rajasthan who migrated from Pakistan after facing severe persecution on the grounds of their religion.


On Monday, the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 was passed with a majority of 311 votes against 80 votes in Lok Sabha. It seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees who came from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan on or before December 31, 2014.

The proposed legislation applies to those who were forced to seek shelter in India due to persecution on the ground of religion. It aims to protect such people from proceedings of illegal migration. The cut-off date for citizenship is December 31, 2014, which means the applicant should have entered India on or before that date.

Reportedly, Cheidam Sharma, the chief coordinator of an organisation facilitating the stay of Hindu immigrants in Jaipur, said under the current law, children of immigrants cannot get Indian citizenship unless their parents have got it.

“For example, I came to India from Karachi with my wife and two children in 2013. I will become eligible for citizenship in June 2020. My wife and children can apply for it only after I have become an Indian citizen. The new legislation does away with this. All of us can apply at the same time if the new law comes into effect,” he was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times.

“We thank the government for incorporating our demand. This allows third-generation minority immigrants from Pakistan to acquire citizenship under Section 6 (naturalization) after five years of stay in India instead of 11 years,” Hindu Singh Sodha, president of Seemant Lok Sangthan, an organisation working for citizenship to Hindu immigrants from Pakistan was quoted in the HT report.

According to the information given by the Rajasthan Home department, nearly 17,652 immigrants from Pakistan are registered at Foreigners Registration Office (FRO) across 18 districts. Out of which 6,127 of them are eligible to become Indian citizens under the existing rules.

In Punjab’s Amritsar, around 20 families of the Sikh and Hindu faiths that have been migrated from Pakistan hailed the introduction of CAB in Parliament.

“I have heard that the citizenship amendment bill is being passed. If we will get citizenship, it will like a new birth for us,” said Saran Singh, 52. His family has five members, including his wife, two sons and a daughter. They are yet to get Indian citizenship.

Read: Why can’t Pakistani Hindus go to Europe or America as refugees if Syrians and Rohingyas can?

There are thousands of Hindu, Sikh, Jain and Christian migrants from Pakistan living as refugees in border states. Under existing laws, the process of being eligible and finally getting Indian citizenship is an exhaustive one, which not only deprives them of education, jobs and government’s welfare schemes but also keeps them from social and financial mobility. If the CAB is passed, it will bring a world of positive changes for these people who had to leave their homes over religious persecution.

On Tuesday, Hindu refugees from Pakistan who are staying in different parts of Delhi also welcomed the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in Lok Sabha. Many residents of Majnu Ka Tila in the national capital said that the bill if cleared, will help them get Indian citizenship and end their life in exile.

After presiding over demographic invasion of North East, Congress creates ‘ethnic cleansing’ bogey over CAB

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After presiding over demographic invasion of North East, Congress creates ‘ethnic cleansing’ bogey over CAB

The Congress party’s fearmongering over the Citizenship Amendment Bill continued in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. It initially began with former Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s tweet claiming that the Citizenship Amendment Bill was a tool to “ethnically cleanse” the North East. “I stand in solidarity with the people of the North East,” said Rahul Gandhi, after his party had presided over the demographic invasion of the region for years by Bangladeshi illegal immigrants.

Taking the cue from the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi Parivar, Congress MP Anand Sharma carried the mantle of fearmongering forward in the Rajya Sabha. He questioned the government whether ‘Concentration Camps’ will be created across the country citing the detention centres established for illegal immigrants. He claimed that ‘hundreds of families’ were living in 6 rooms.


Anand Sharma knows quite well that the detention centres in no way resemble ‘Concentration Camps’ in any manner whatsoever. Nonetheless, he says such things because he expects his party to benefit politically by creating an environment of fear.

Anand Sharma is perfectly aware that no ‘fact-checkers’ will bust the fake narrative he is attempting to create. Therefore, he feels at liberty to indulge in rabid fearmongering.

Read: Citizenship Amendment Bill – Myths and lies propagated against it, and the facts

The Congress party has reduced itself to fearmongering over a humanitarian Bill that seeks to provide Citizenship Rights to persecuted minorities from neighbouring countries that happen to be the Islamic States. The manner in which the Congress party is working hard to deny Citizenship Rights to persecuted minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan is distressing indeed.

Read: Congress’ abhorrent treachery: It is time Congress answers for Assam and to Assam

One would have expected the main opposition party of this country to conduct itself in a more responsible manner. However, it appears that the Congress party has not learnt any lesson even after suffering two consecutive humiliating defeats in General Elections.

Bihar: Pregnant girl dies after being set on fire by boyfriend Arman Ansari after she presses him for marriage

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Bihar: Pregnant girl dies after being set on fire by boyfriend Arman Ansari after she presses him for marriage

In another horrific incident, a pregnant girl was burnt allegedly by her boyfriend at a village under Sikarpur police station limits in Bihar’s West Champaran district on Tuesday morning. Bettiah Superintendent of Police, Nitasha Gudiya, said, “The two had a love affair. The girl claims to be one-month pregnant.”


The main accused, one Arman Ansari, has been arrested late evening, police have confirmed. “The accused has been arrested and we are investigating the case,” said Suryakant Chaubey, the sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) of Narkatiaganj. She suffered massive burn injuries on her face and other parts of her body, he added.

The girl who had suffered around 70-80 per cent burn injury, had been admitted at a hospital in Narkatiyaganj area in Bettiah. She was later referred to the Patna Medical College and Hospital for further medical treatment. According to a report by Zee News, the girl succumbed to her injuries while she was on her way to Patna for treatment.

Read: Unnao case: All you need to know about a ghastly crime born out of a troubled relationship

As for the age of the victim, there seems to be some confusion as a few reports claim that the victim was 19-years-old while others claim that the victim was a minor.

The victim was one month pregnant with her boyfriend’s child who allegedly lured her into establishing a physical relationship with him on the pretext of marriage. However, after learning about her pregnancy the boy, who was allegedly in his 20s, backtracked. On being pressurised by the victim to marry her, the accused, Arman Ansari with the help of his friends, barged into her home when she was alone, doused the girl with kerosene and set her on fire.

“The duo was having an affair for sometimes now. When she became pregnant, she insisted on their marriage. We also tried to build social pressure on his family members. But nothing worked,” said the victim’s brother.

Read: Tripura: Minor girl raped, burnt to death by boyfriend, his family and friends after keeping her captive for two months

Upon hearing her scream, the neighbours rushed to the victim’s rescue and managed to douse the fire. She was then taken to the local health care centre and later referred to the Sadar Hospital with severe burn injuries. Police had recorded the victim’s statement and a case has been registered on the basis of her allegations.

Various such ghastly incidents of sexual assault on women have been reported from various parts of the country recently.

Recently, a rape victim in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao was set ablaze by her accused when she was on her way to a local court for the hearing on a rape case filed by her. She was set on fire by five men, including her rape accused. She succumbed to her injuries a day after the incident.

Similarly, in November, a veterinarian was gang-raped, murdered and her body set ablaze in Telangana. Later, all four accused were killed in a police encounter.

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