We are looking at giving a home to minorities from Indic religions who have historically had problems in three Muslim-majority countries. As for persecuted Muslims there, there are several Islamic countries in this world...India is already burdened by a massive population, we can’t keep giving citizenship. But minorities there have nowhere else to go.
We have no intention of throwing out people, nor are we talking about them coming to work. Just that they cannot become citizens. (Maldives, a 100 per cent Sunni Muslim country, only gives work permits…even to those from Pakistan, Bangladesh or other Muslim countries). It has been conveniently manufactured that the bill is anti-Muslim. The bill is worded very carefully; it’s not for every Hindu, Jain, Christian or Buddhist who comes along. It’s for the persecuted, they’ll probably have to prove that…. Assam feels strongly about it.
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