The BJP on Wednesday   accused Opposition parties of stoking communal passion by speaking lies about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, as the Modi government came under attack over its implementation. Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva hit back at Arvind Kejriwal, charging he has hurt the sentiments of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, and Christian refugees living in the country. Kejriwal on Wednesday said the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act ahead of the Lok Sabha polls was dirty vote bank politics of the BJP and asserted that people want this law to be repealed. With this law, the BJP-led government at the Centre has opened the floodgates for the arrival of a large number of poor minorities from Pakistan and Bangladesh into India, he said at a press conference. The Union Home Ministry on Monday notified the rules for the implementation of CAA that was passed by the Parliament in December 2019. The law grants Indian citizenship to the persecuted religious minorities — Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Christian and Parsi — from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who came to India before December 31, 2014. Even if 1.5 crore of the minorities in neighbouring countries come to India following the implementation of the CAA, a dangerous situation will arise, he claimed. It will be a migration bigger than that of 1947... Law and order will go for a toss. There could be an increase in rape and dacoity, said Kejriwal who is also the convener of the Aam Aadmi Party. There are 3.5 crore minorities in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, he said and alleged, The BJP wants to spend the money of our people in settling poor migrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh by giving them houses and jobs here. He claimed that the BJP stands to gain in the coming elections as poor minorities from the neighbouring countries settling in India will become its vote bank. Implementation of the CAA ahead of the Lok Sabha polls was a dirty vote bank politics of the BJP, Kejriwal said. The country demands scrapping of CAA, he said and asked people to vote against the BJP if the law is not repealed. Kejriwal said that had the BJP government at the Centre done its work in its 10-year rule, there would have been no need for it to implement CAA ahead of the polls. Kejriwal said today the biggest problem facing the country is inflation and unemployment. It is becoming difficult for anyone to run a household; inflation is at its peak. On the other hand, our youth are running from pillar to post to get employment. They are being beaten up. On one hand there is a huge army of unemployed in the country and the BJP government in Haryana is sending youths to die in Israel where a war is going on. On the other hand, the BJP wants to settle Pakistanis in India and provide employment to their children. What kind of nonsense is this to bring people from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan to India and give the rightful employment of our children to them, Kejriwal charged, adding, In the last 10 years, 11 lakh industrialists and businessmen left India. If the BJP must bring people to the country, it should bring them back to provide jobs. The AAP supremo appealed to the citizens to demand the revocation of the CAA.

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