Janata Dal (United) Vice President Prashant Kishor on Thursday reiterated his opposition on the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill that was passed in the Rajya Sabha yesterday. His party voted for the bill in both houses of the Parliament, but apprehension about exclusion of Muslims from the law. The JDU is an ally of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
Kishor tweeted on Thursday that the National Register of Citizens along with the bill, could turn into a “lethal combo”.
“We are told that CAB is bill to grant citizenship and not to take it from anyone,” Kishor said, referring to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s comment in the Rajya Sabha. “But the truth is together with NRC, it could turn into a lethal combo in the hands of Government to systematically discriminate and even prosecute people based on religion.”
He also used the hashtag #NotGivingUp with his tweet.
Kishor had earlier expressed his disappointment with the party’s decision to vote for the CAB. In an earlier tweet, he had written: “Disappointed to see JD(U) supporting CAB that discriminates right of citizenship on the basis of religion,” he tweeted. “It’s incongruous with the party’s constitution that carries the word secular thrice on the very first page and the leadership that is supposedly guided by Gandhian ideals.”
Not just Prashant Kishor, Former MP and the party’s National General Secretary Pavan Varma had on Tuesday urged party chief Nitish Kumar to reconsider support for the amendments.
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