Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said that “opportunists unleashed organised violence” in the name of protests ag...
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said that “opportunists unleashed organised violence” in the name of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, the Hindustan Times reported.
“CAA [Citizenship Amendment Act] does not oppose any particular religious community,” Bhagwat said in an address to the country on Vijaya Dashmi. “But those who wanted to oppose this new law misled our Muslim brothers by propagating a false notion that it was aimed at restricting the Muslim population. Using CAA, opportunists unleashed organised violence in the name of protests.”
He said that the protest was doused because of the coronavirus. “We witnessed anti-CAA protests which created tension in the country,” the RSS chief said, according to the Hindustan Times. ‘Before it could be discussed further, the focus shifted on Corona this year. Corona overshadowed all other topics.” He added that “rioters and opportunists” were, however, putting in effort to “reignite the conflict”.
The Citizenship Amendment Act, approved by Parliament on December 11, provides citizenship to refugees from six minority religious communities from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan, on the condition that they have lived in India for six years and entered the country by December 31, 2014. It has been widely criticised for excluding Muslims. Protests against the CAA had started in Delhi in mid-December and spread...
