“Wherever the intruders are, every one of them from Kedarnath to Kanyakumari will be picked and ousted from the country. They will not be allowed to stay here,” Shah said.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that every intruder from Kedarnath to Kanyakumari will be picked and ousted from the country. Shah said Hindu, Sikh, Jain and Buddhist refugees in India have as much right to citizenship as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but it was blocked due to the politics of appeasement.
Addressing a massive gathering in Haridwar to mark the completion of nine years of the BJP and four years of the Pushkar Singh Dhami government in Uttarakhand, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government is resolutely working to oust every single infiltrator from India in the coming years.
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“Wherever the intruders are, every one of them from Kedarnath to Kanyakumari will be picked and ousted from the country. They will not be allowed to stay here,” Shah said.
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He also claimed that non-Muslim refugees in India have the same right to citizenship as any other Indian citizen.
“Today, nearly 200 refugees who came from Pakistan and Afghanistan were granted citizenship. I clearly remember that when the CAA law was brought, political parties like the Samajwadi Party, BSP, Mamta Banerjee’s TMC and the DMK created chaos in Parliament. I want to reiterate that our Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan have the same right over this country as Narendra Modi,” Shah said.
He further said these refugees were deprived of their rightful citizenship since Independence due to appeasement politics. “They came to India after facing massive atrocities. They came here to save their religion and the honour of their women. Will this nation not offer them citizenship?” he asked.
The Union Home Minister also took a dig at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi over the pre-2014 Union governments not granting citizenship to non-Muslim refugees and said that no matter how much he opposes it, the Modi government will not shy away from making them Indian citizens.
Shah praised the nine-year tenure of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and his predecessor Trivendra Singh Rawat, and said that the BJP rule in Uttarakhand has done away with various ills, including the removal of encroachments from nearly 10,000 acres of government land.
Praising the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), Shah said it would prevent “inorganic demographic change.” Referring to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by the Election Commission of India (ECI), Shah emphasised that non-citizens must be removed from the voters’ list to protect democracy.
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