Chandigarh, Dec 25 (UNI) BJP organized a press conference at their Chandigarh Party Office in Chandigarh to discuss the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). BJP National Vice President and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chauhan interacted with the media and presented party’s stand and response to nationwide protests against the CAA. Chandigarh MP Kiron Kher, BJP Chandigarh President Sanjay Tandon, BJP Chandigarh Gen. Secretary Chander Shekhar and BJP Chandigarh Media incharge Ravinder Pathania was also present on the occasion.
Mr Chauhan opened the press conference by greeting merry christmas to all the countrymen and gathered media personnel. He paid homage to Madan Mohan Malviya and Atal Bihari Vajpayee on their birth anniversary today.
Mr Chauhan said that while BJP celebrates Vajpayee birth anniversary as ‘Sushasan Diwas’, Congress and other opposition parties are misinforming and misleading the people of the country to spread hate, violence and unrest in the country. He said, it was Mahatma Gandhi’s desire that after the partition of India and Pakistan, all non-Muslims who do not wish to live in Pakistan should be allowed to come to India. In 1950, Prime Minister of India Jawahar Lal Nehru entered into an agreement with the Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaqat Ali, known as Jawahar-Liaquat accord where both leaders agreed to protect the rights of minorities in both countries. India went on to become a secular state where every citizen has the same rights irrespective of religion. Whereas, Pakistan, an Islamic country did not honour the agreement and has been persecuting the non-Muslims in their country since independence. Studies show the population of minorities in Pakistan was 23 pc after the partition but it has been reduced to less than 3% now.