Patna, December 10
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s JD-U on Tuesday appeared divided on supporting the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Parliament with two top party functionaries calling the legislation “discriminatory and unconstitutional”.
Party vice-president Prashant Kishor and general secretary Pavan K Varma voiced disappointment over the JD-U backing the Bill in the Lok Sabha and urged Nitish to “reconsider” the stand when the legislation is debated in the Rajya Sabha tomorrow (Wednesday). The JD-U, that had opposed key legislations like the Triple Talaq Bill and the Jammu and Kashmir (Reorganisation) Bill, came under Opposition fire for supporting the CAB.”I urge Shri Nitish Kumar to reconsider support to the #CAB in the Rajya Sabha. The Bill is unconstitutional, discriminator, and against the unity and harmony of the country, apart from being against the secular principles of the JDU. Gandhiji would have strongly disapproved it,” Varma, also the party’s national spokesman, tweeted.
He later told a TV channel that he might broach the issue with the Bihar CM, who is also party president. Varma said despite being a constituent of the BJP-led NDA, the party had in the past taken contrarian stand on several sensitive issues like Article 370. The CAB, he said, was not in consonance with the JD-U constitution, which could not be held hostage to political concerns.
Earlier, on Monday night, while the Bill was being put to vote in the Lok Sabha, Kishor had tweeted disappointed to see “JDU supporting #CAG that discriminates right of citizenship on the basis of religion.” — PTI
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