BJP in trouble because of CAA: Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit

With anti-CAA and anti-National Register of Citizen (NRC) agitation continues unabated, Senior Congress leader and former MP Sandeep Dikshit on Tuesday said that the BJP government is in trouble with its own Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and former MP Sandeep Dikshit on Tuesday said that the BJP government is in trouble with its own Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

With anti-CAA and anti-National Register of Citizen (NRC) agitation continues unabated, the former Congress Parliamentarian Dikshit said that the agitation is spontaneous.

While speaking to ETV Bharat, Dikshit said, "BJP is in deep trouble. They tried to go ahead with the NRC in Assam but when lakhs of Hindus were excluded from the NRC list, this party has brought CAA, they're trying to divide the country on the basis of religion."

He claimed that the ongoing agitation will continue until the government does not withdraw CAA.

Referring to the issue where West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was shown black flag allegedly by Jadavpur University (JU) students, Dixit said that if a Governor gives his statement which is anti-people, he was sure to face such criticism.

"West Bengal Governor has given his statement over CAA, which people of the state did not like and people has the right to express their anger," said Dikshit adding that the move taken by JU was spontaneous.

On the issue of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi's visit to Meerut to meet kin of deceased protesters, Dixit said it is BJP which is politicizing the issue.

"It's common if some unfortunate incident happened especially by the brutal forces of the government, leaders should go and meet the victims. So there was no harm if Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi went to Meerut to meet kin of the deceased," said Dikshit.

Both Rahul and Priyanka was heading towards Meerut to meet the kin who died in police firing while doing protest against CAA. But the duo were stopped by police from entering Meerut.

Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit was on Thursday detained at Mandi House during an anti-CAA protest. The area is seeing heavy security deployment.

Protests have erupted in several parts of the country, including Uttar Pradesh, over the newly-enacted citizenship law, which grants citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists, and Christians fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh who came to India on or before December 31, 2014.