Citizenship law will benefit Dalits: JP Nadda

On a day BJP silently launched a massive pan India PR exercise to win the perception battle on Citizenship Amendment Act, the party’s working president JP Nadda connected the Act with the betterment of Dalits in New Delhi.

While addressing a conclave for BJP’s Delhi unit at Talkatora stadium, Nadda said, “70 per cent of the beneficiaries of the CAA will be from the Dalit community. “Yet you have Dalit leaders presenting arguments against the Act. At least think before you talk,” said Nadda.

Nadda also claimed



that the reason for bringing the law is religious persecution and Pakistan not honouring Liyaqat-Nehru pact that talked about preserving the rights of minorities.

“We had declared ourselves secular but Pakistan had declared themselves as Islamic nation,” he said. In fact, Nadda also called the Partition as handiwork of the Congress and done on the basis of religion.

This new googly of connecting the CAA with Dalit rights comes on a day when the BJP launched a nationwide reachout programme under six zonal coordinators.