Delhi Sikh votes: BJP links Citizenship (Amendment) Act with gurudwara strike

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to have decided to turn the attack on the Nankana Sahib, some 75 km west of Lahore in Pakistan, into a Delhi Assembly poll issue and use it as a shield to defend the new citizenship law (CAA). Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, BJP national secretary RP Singh said, "On Friday, stones were thrown at the Nankana Sahib Gurdwara and slogan to throw Sikhs out of Pakistan and send them to India were raised. The Pakistan government didn't take any action for 13 hours." And then Singh, himself a Sikh, gave it the political twist, "Those who are opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act may now understand how Sikhs are living there." He was addressing the media along with another National Secretary Tarun Chugh and party MP Meenakshi Lekhi. Sikhs constitute around 4.5 percent of Delhi's population, as per the 2011 census. The Nankana Sahib is among the most revered places for Sikhs as Guru Nanak, the first Sikh guru, was born there in 1469. (IANS)

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