Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national secretary Sunil Deodhar said there will be no humanity shown towards Muslims coming illegally into India even if they are persecuted in the three Islamic countries - Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. “It is the responsibility of those three nations to take care of their majority population as ‘partition’ of the country happened on the basis of religion. Only minorities in those countries subjected to persecution will be considered for citizenship, which was proposed by the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, but never became a reality,” the party leader said. CAA in election manifestoThe minority population in Pakistan was 20 per cent at the time of ‘partition’, but has come down significantly to 9.9 per cent, which, Mr. Deodhar said explained how they suffered. “Congress and the Communist parties always wanted citizenship given to persecuted minorities.

Source: The Hindu December 29, 2019 11:48 UTC