Subhas Chandra Bose's kin and WB BJP's senior leader questions CAA

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Subhas Chandra Bose's kin and WB BJP's senior leader questions CAA

Don't equate India or compare it with any other nation - as it's a nation open to all religions and communities, he said

Tuesday December 24, 2019 2:24 PM, ummid.com with inputs from IANS

[Chandra Kumar Bose (second from right) with BJP president Amit Shah and others in a file photo.]

New Delhi: In a major embarassment for the party, Chandra Kumar Bose, BJP Vice President for West Bengal and grandnephew of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, on Tuesday demanded transparency in the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 saying if it was not related to any religion, then Muslims should also be included.

"If CAA, 2019 is not related to any religion why are we stating - Hindu, Sikh, Buddhists, Christians, Parsis and Jains only! Why not include Muslims as well? Let's be transparent," he tweeted.

Bose's comments came amidst the widespread protests against Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens (NRC) all across India. The Act is being slammed also by international forums.

In a series of tweets, late on Monday night and on Tuesday, Bose also said that India is a nation open to all religions and communities and should not be compared to any other country.

"Don't equate India or compare it with any other nation - as it's a nation open to all religions and communities," he said.

On BJP's stand that Muslims are not being persecuted in their home countries, he said if that is the case, "they would not come, so there's no harm in including them."

However, he added, "this is not entirely true - what about Baloch who live in Pakistan and Afghanistan? What about Ahmadiyyas in Pakistan?"

Bose said the party which would follow the inclusive ideology of Subhas Chandra Bose representing all communities and work for the upliftment of all strata of the society would win Bengal in the 2021 Assembly elections. "The rest would be irrelevant."

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