What BJP leader advised party on CAA

January 20, 2020 10:24

West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party vice-president and Netaji Subhas Chandra Boses grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose has said that a law should not be thrust on the citizens in a democratic country. He was speaking about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act passed by Parliament last month.

Our job is to explain to people that we are right and they are wrong. You cannot be abusive. Just because we have numbers today we cannot do terror politics. Let us go to people explaining benefits of CAA, Bose said.

Once a bill has been passed as an act, it is binding on the state governments, that is the legal position but in a democratic country you cannot thrust any act on the citizens of our country, he added.

Bose also said that he has suggested some modifications to the bill which will puncture the entire Opposition campaign. We need to specifically state that it is meant for persecuted minorities, we should not mention any religion. Our approach should be different, he said.

The CAA led to protests in the entire country where the Congress-led Opposition called for the scrapping of the new act. The protests have been most vehement in West Bengal where the ruling Trinamool Congress and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has vowed that she will not allow the act to be implemented in her state.

READ: BJP leader: 'Netaji would support anti-CAA protests'

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