CAA, NRC will be implemented at any cost: Nadda

BJP working president J P Nadda has asserted that the CAA and the NRC will be implemented at any cost. He indicated that the Union Government would not bow down in front of the opposition.

New Delhi: Amid intense protest against the newly amended citizenship law, BJP working president J P Nadda on Thursday said that the CAA will be implemented and that the National Register of Citizens will also be prepared.

Addressing media persons after meeting Sikh refugees from Afghanistan here, the BJP leader slammed the opposition parties for opposing the legislation and said they must come to meet these people who had to leave their country because of continuous religious persecution.

"Those who are opposing the citizenship law should meet them. These people have been living in India for 28-30 years but can't admit their children in schools or buy a house as they do not have citizenship. Our rivals cannot see anything beyond their vote bank politics," Nadda said.

He said the opposition parties are protesting for vote bank politics. "The language that the Congress speaks has similarity with that of Pakistan," he said.

"They are ignoring the plight of minorities of three neighbouring countries living in India," he said, asserting that the Narendra Modi government will do everything possible to help these people.

"India is marching ahead under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and will continue to do so. The Citizenship Amendment Act will be implemented, so will be the NRC in future," he said.

Interacting with the ETV Bharat, one of the Afghan refugees said that he came from Afghanistan to India some 28-30 years ago and has been living in Delhi since then.

He was able to secure Indian citizenship for himself but other members of his family could not get it, and now he is happy that after the amended law, they too would get Indian citizenship soon.

"There (in Afghanistan) we would be termed Hindus and here, we are known as Afghans," he said, requesting the people who are opposing the CAA to understand their situation.

He also said that he along with all others is grateful to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government for getting the law amended to accommodate them in India.

Meanwhile, agitation against the CAA and NRC has intensified in several regions of the country with thousands of people hitting the roads shouting slogans against the government and the new version of the citizenship act.

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