VHP to run nationwide campaign in support of CAA

This was stated by Milind Parande, General Secretary of VHP at a press conference here on January 8. He said that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) brought in by the Central Government was intended to grant citizenship of India to persecuted minorities (Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, Parsis and Christians) seeking refuge in India from neighbouring Islamic nations of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

The Union Government deserves immense praise for bringing in this law, Parande said. These countries, being Islamic nations, the Muslims residing there, are neither minority nor persecuted on religious grounds. The CAA concerns only with persecuted minorities from these countries hence it does not affect the Indian Muslims at all, he clarified.

Four days ago, Nankana Sahib, the holy birthplace of Guru Nanak Devji, was plundered and desecrated by a Muslim mob after Friday Namaz in Pakistan. This is one more example of the persecution that the Hindu-Sikh community has been facing in Pakistan. In this case, the mob was led by the same Muslim who had earlier kidnapped the daughter of the Gurudwara's granthi.

The VHP also strongly condemned the violent incidents by the student mob of Jamia Millia University, the arson, violence and destruction of national property by Muslims in West Bengal, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh & Gujarat, Parande said commenting on the violent protests over CAA in different parts of the country.

Communist Parties and some other parties, which are lending support to such acts of violence are displaying their anti-national and anti-social mind-set, only for the sake of garnering Muslim votes through appeasement. The hoisting of "Free Kashmir" banner at a rally in Mumbai is nothing but such acts of appeasing Muslims, he alleged.

The VHP would run a campaign throughout the country, along with its Malwa branch, to counter the false propaganda being made against the CAA. VHP, being a Hindu organisation, will work with its full strength to help the persecuted minorities from these countries in getting Indian citizenship, he added.

Andhra Pradesh government has taken innumerable unconstitutional decisions, like acquiring Hindu temple land by unlawful means, paying Muslim Moulvis and Christian priests from govt. coffers, non-Hindus being inducted into the management and trust of Hindu temples and religious bodies.

The VHP strongly condemned these anti-Hindu acts of the Andhra Pradesh govt. This January, we will launch a procession in all the districts of the country to protest against these unlawful steps of the Andhra Pradesh Government. A massive agitation will also be launched in Andhra Pradesh against this and VHP will also move the court against these decisions.

Cow smuggling has been going on in the areas bordering Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra and in the district of Jhabua. The Christian missionaries have been resorting to proselytization of Hindus unhindered. The VHP has even handed over to the police, a list of 47 illegal Christian prayer halls, but no action has been taken by the state government till date. In Ratlam district, 7-8 Hindu workers have already been brutally murdered this year, VHP has been appraising the administration regarding this and demands that strict action be taken against these crimes.

VHP also demands that cow smuggling, anti-Hindu violent activities, illegal conversions and other conspiracies be checked by the state govt.