The Bjp Has Demanded That The Government Grant Citizenship To Hindus And Sikhs From Pakistan Who Have Fled To India

[dalsingh101]

This is a turn up for the books. I remember some of us was talking of this a few months ago when that beheading of the Singhs in NWFP took place.

JALANDHAR: The BJP has demanded that the government grant citizenship to Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan who have fled to India after facing harassment there.

"Every person who wishes to return to our country, should be granted citizenship, irrespective of the community he or she belongs to," BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu said here. He was asked about the demand of Hindu and Sikh families from Pakistan, who have been residing here for over a decade, that they be given Indian citizenship.

"It is my stand and also of my party that they should be granted citizenship," he said, adding there was a need to expedite the process of granting citizenship.

Nearly 200 such families are residing in Jalandhar. The Punjab BJP had set up a committee to study problems of Hindu families which have settled in the state after being driven out of Pakistan.

The three-member committee is headed by Rajya Sabha MP Avinash Rai Khanna who has demanded that the government provide an assistance Rs 4,000 per month to each of these displaces families.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/BJP-favours-granting-citizenship-to-Hindus-Sikhs-from-Pak/articleshow/6181191.cms

[tonyhp32]

These are just statements made by a political party that is out of power. Statements such as these are made one day and forgotten the next. Why didn't they do something when they were in power up until 2004? Hindus and Sikhs have been fleeing Pakistan since the late 90s. Why didn't they expedite citizenship for the Afghani Sikhs and Hindus who fled to India after the invasion of Afghanistan by the US?

[dalsingh101]

If we had astute political leadership, they may have been able to use such things to the quoms advantage by trying to put pressure on those in power via their opponent party to get things done.

It wouldn't hurt Panjab to bring those business minded Afghanos in. Plus leaving them at the mercy of kuttarh sullay is cold.