Peace should be the priority and not provocation, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Monday, amid a row over a Uttar Pradesh police official’s purported “Go to Pakistan” remark during a protest against the amended Citizenship Act. “If the video is true, then appropriate action should be taken,” Mr. Naqvi said. Mr. Singh said he made the remark to people shouting slogans in support of Pakistan during the protest. “I advised them to go to the place in support of which they were raising slogans,” he said. Mr. Naqvi said Muslims were living in India not by compulsion, but by commitment.

Source: The Hindu December 30, 2019 19:07 UTC