Government Trying To Shut People’s Voice “Via Bullets”: Congress
Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury says BJP leaders are faux Hindus. (Report)
New Delhi:
Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury hit out on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP) within the Lok Sabha describing its leaders as “faux Hindus” and accused the federal government of “seeking to close the voices of other folks via bullets.”
Mr Chowdhury’s remarks got here amid protests towards the Citizenship (Modification) Act (CAA) and 3 firing incidents in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh and Jamia house.
Regarding Union minister Anurag Thakur’s recent “shoot the traitors” remark whilst main a crowd at a BJP rally, Mr Chowdhury mentioned the federal government “can’t close the voice of the folks via bullets”. Mr Thakur, who used to be campaigning for BJP candidate Manish Chaudhary, had chanted “desh ke gaddaron ko”, to which the gang enthusiastically spoke back “Goli Maaro Sa***n Ko”; all the chant interprets to “shoot down the traitors who betray the rustic”.
“Persons are staging protests to save lots of the Charter after the Citizenship Modification Act got here into pressure. Not unusual persons are being shot and killed by way of bullets. This executive is making an attempt to close the voice of other folks via bullets. They can’t do this. They (BJP) are faux Hindus,” Mr Chowdhury mentioned all the way through 0 Hour challenging dialogue over the problem and asking the federal government to rethink CAA.
A shot used to be fired out of doors the Jamia Millia Islamia College in south Delhi on Sunday night time within the 3rd such incident in 4 days at an anti-Citizenship (Modification) Act (CAA) protest within the capital. On Saturday, simply 3 days after an adolescent shooter fired at protesters at Jamia Millia College, some other guy fired photographs status close to police barricades post at Shaheen Bagh.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla interrupted him and mentioned a past due night time dialogue on CAA used to be organized within the iciness consultation. In the meantime, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi mentioned Congress can carry the problem after the movement of because of President’s deal with, “I’m interesting to you via Speaker to let the Area proceed its court cases.”
Mr Chowdhury used to be amongst different Congress MPs in conjunction with different lawmakers from Dravida Munetra Kazhagam (DMK) and Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) who began protesting towards the federal government to “roll again” CAA quickly after the Area assembled at 11 am nowadays.
The lawmakers got here close to the Speaker’s podium and started sloganeering “save our democracy”, “save our Charter”, “save our India”, “High Minister, answer”, “prevent inflammatory speeches” and “roll-back CAA” when Speaker Birla didn’t permit Congress ground chief to talk over the problem.
Amid pandemonium, Mr Birla persisted the Query Hour and 0 Hour. Because the ruckus persisted, the Speaker adjourned the Area for lunch until 1:30 pm.
Previous, Mr Chowdhury, Kodikunnil Suresh and Gaurav Gogoi gave adjournment movement notices within the Lok Sabha to “rethink” the contentious Citizenship Modification Act which got here into pressure on January 10 when the Ministry of House Affairs made the announcement via a gazette notification — virtually a month after it used to be handed by way of Parliament on December 11, 2019.
CAA grants citizenship to migrants from six non-Muslim communities — Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians — who fled to India from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan until December 31, 2014.
