Chinese Consul General Terms The Amended Citizenship Bill An Internal Matter Of India
The new Citizenship law, passed in the Parliament last week, has sparked protests in several states across India with protesters demanding its withdrawal. This law basically meant give citizenship to non Muslim migrants of 1947 and thereafter who crossed over from Pakistan into India because of religious prosecution. It is also meant to segregate illegal entrants into India from East Pakistan who are Muslim by religion by migrating because of economic reasons.
The area actually affected are Assam, West Bengal, a few other States of North East and a few border districts of Bihar. The amended Citizenship Act seeks to provide citizenship to members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities who have entered India till December 31, 2014 following religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
Due to political reasons and Vote Bank politics Congress and few other Parties have opposed this Citizenship Bill and encouraged protests against it in such a way that it shows to be a law against the Muslim minority in India.
In the backdrop of ongoing protests across the country against the amended Citizenship Act, Chinese Consul General to Kolkata, Zha Liyou, on Wednesday said it is an internal matter of India.
The problem has to be resolved by India alone, he said.
“It’s an internal matter of India. We have nothing to say on it. It’s your country and you have to resolve your own issues,” Liyou told reporters at the sidelines of a program.
India and China share a great relationship, he said.
The United Nations’ human rights body which has no understanding of this Bill has shown its utter ignorance last week by voicing concern over new citizenship law, terming it “fundamentally discriminatory” in nature. Such utterings give a very bad image of UN Human Rights body. This is the reason that it is not taken seriously by any Country.
