CAA, NRC to harm peace, stability in region: BNP
Main opposition BNP on Sunday said that the Indian Citizenship Amendment Act based on religion and the National Register of Citizens would hinder peace and stability in the subcontinent.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the comment and demanded withdrawal of Indian home minister and ruling Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah’s speech in Indian Parliament about Bangladesh, BNP and BNP chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia.
Fakhrul made the demand at a news briefing organised by the party standing committee at the party chairperson’s Gulshan office in the capital.
Fakhrul said that whole India was protesting against the CAA based on religion targeting Muslims and the protesters termed the act as undemocratic, discriminatory, unconstitutional and inhuman.
He said that India’s new religion based nationality was drawing condemnation and criticism across India.
He said that ‘the unrest would not remain confined to Indian territory but it would gradually destroy peace and stability in the sub-continent.’
Fakhrul said that the people of Bangladesh were worried about India applying its National Register of Citizens in Assam bordering Bangladesh depriving 19 lakh people of their Indian citizenship.
He said that the top leaders of Indian ruling party BJP had declared that they had made the Citizenship Amendment Act with the goal of preparing the National Register of Citizens in the other Indian provinces including West Bengal, with sizeable Muslim populations.
He criticised the Awami League led government for its silence about the new Indian National Register of Citizens and its Citizenship Amendment ACT though top BJP leaders and Indian ministers declared that Bangla-speaking Muslims would pushed into Bangladesh.
Referring to media reports, he said that pushing of Bangla speaking Muslims into Bangladesh had been going on creating tension in the bordering areas of Bangladesh where the people had formed ‘Push-in Resistance Committees’.
Fakhrul called it a matter of deep concern that India was out to push in Indian Muslims into Bangladesh by making them stateless using the Citizenship Amendment Act and the new National Register of Citizens just as Myanmar made Rohingyas stateless using repression and pushed them into Bangladesh.
‘There is no basis difference between Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and India pushing its minority Muslims into Bangladesh,’ he said.
Fakhrul said that that the AL-led government’s silence marking it failed foreign policy about India’s NRC was clearly against Bangladesh’s sovereignty and the people.
The situation was potent with increasing the refugee burden for Bangladesh over and above 11 lakh Rohingya refugees already in the country.
Fakhrul demanded the withdrawal of the controversial statement by Indian home minister Amit Shah in Parliament that the Hindus, Buddhists and the Christians were facing oppression in Bangladesh.
He said that in his statement flouting civility Amit Shash also alleged that the Hindus fled to India in large scales due to oppression during the BNP rule.
He said that Amit Shah told the Indian Parliament that the Citizenship Amendment Bill had be tabled because the Hindus were still facing oppression in Bangladesh.
Fakhrul described Amit Shah’s statement as untrue, one sided, discriminatory, ambiguous and highly controversial.
He said that BNP successfully maintained inter religious harmony in Bangladesh during its rule.
Fakhrul demanded that the Indian government should immediately withdraw the fabricated statement of Amit Shah about Bangladesh and BNP and to refrain from making such statements in future.
Present at the news briefing were BNP standing committee members – Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Abdul Moyeen Khan, Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Nazrul Islam Khan, Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, Selima Rahman and Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku.
News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net
