The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday vowed to run a countrywide campaign to implement the National Register of Citizens if the party is voted back to power in 2019.
“After the BJP came to power in 2014, we have boosted the national security. We also implemented the NRC in Assam and identified 40 lakh infiltrators,” BJP President Amit Shah told the booth-level workers of Madhya Pradesh.
He further added that the Assam government identified 40 lakh people in the state who were unable to prove their citizenship. However, corrections are going on. Taking a dig at Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Amit Shah said, “The Congress opposed the NRC. They made it a human rights issue. The Congress and Rahul Gandhi should clear their stand over the NRC and tell the nation whether the infiltrators should be sent back to their countries or not.”
He also asserted that the people have faith in the Modi government and they would be voting for him in 2019. “And once voted back to power, we shall run a countrywide campaign to send back the infiltrators,” he said, adding the party was not bothered about vote-bank politics as national security was a prime concern for it.
Addressing a video conference, the BJP chief also accused the Congress president of sympathising with urban Maoists. He said, “BJP governments have taken strong steps against the Maoists. When Maharashtra government arrested a few urban Maoists, the Congress president and their leaders took their side and opposed the step.”
“The Congress and its leaders have soft corner for the urban Maoists. The Congress should clear its stand on Maoists and urban Maoists,” he added.
He also slammed the Congress for describing Maoists as revolutionaries. Shah said that the party and the government believe in a revolution when “we provide medicines to poor, when we provide electricity, when we provide good education system for children.”
He, on the occasion, urged the party workers to visit all homes and explain the party’s ideology over the NRC and Maoists as well as government intention towards them. Shah also praised Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan for bringing the state out of the sick state category.
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