Three days before the final phase of the vote, two allies have come face to face over the Citizenship Amendment Act. The recent vote by UP CM and BJP leader Yogi Adityanath to “kick out the intruders” appears to have upset his counterpart in Bihar, who dubbed the comment “faltu baat” (nonsense). Who talks like this? Nitish Kumar asked.
“Some people are spreading propaganda. Who will get who out of the country? No one has the power to kick anyone out because everyone belongs to India. We have always created an atmosphere of harmony and tried to bring everyone together,” Kumar said in a speech. public demonstration in Kishanganj on Wednesday.
Some people are spreading propaganda. Who will get whom out of the country? No one has the power to kick anyone out because everyone belongs to India. We have always created an atmosphere of harmony and tried to bring everyone together: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar at a public rally in Kishanganj pic.twitter.com/sRV3fD4p8D
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The CM assured that its effort is “to work for harmony, unity and brotherhood so that there is progress”. “And these people just want to create divisions; they don’t have another job,” he said.
Addressing a rally at the Kathihar assembly seat, Adityanath had said: “Agar koi ghuspathiya Bharat ki seema mein ghusne ka kutsit prayas kar raha hai use bharat ki seema se bahar karne ka prayas karenge … (If an intruder he tries to invade Indian territory, then the government would kick him out of the country) “.
The UP CM said that if Congress and RJD came to power, they would spread such anarchy in Shaheen Bagh, a Delhi-based town that had become an epicenter for protests against the CAA. “We know that some of the areas in Bihar, including Katihar, are facing the problem,” he added.
The NRC and the new citizenship law had created fissures in the JDU, an ally of the BJP, and then-party vice president Prashant Kishor publicly called on Kumar to reconsider his support for the legislation. The Bihar CM had also ensured that NRC would not be implemented in the state.
Cornered by journalists seeking to hear his views on the NRC at the national level as envisioned by Interior Minister Amit Shah, Kumar joked in January: “Kaahe ka NRC? Bilkul laagu nahin hoga” (NRC for what? It will not be implemented at all).
The new citizenship law, which seeks to make religion the test to grant citizenship, has been called “discriminatory” by critics who feel it goes against the Muslim community.
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