BJP will have to pay for stubbornness on CAA: Punjab CM Amarinder Singh 

CHANDIGARH: Taking former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan head on over the threat of the Centre implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act at any cost, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said the BJP would have to pay a heavy price for such stubbornness.

An elected government that refuses to heed the voice of its people or respond to their anger is bound to lose their confidence and collapse, said the Chief Minister, adding the BJP’s stance on the issue “smacked of a dangerously fascist approach that would lead to their eventual downfall”. As far as his government was concerned, “there was no way it would allow the brazenly divisive Act to be implemented in Punjab”, Amarinder Singh said.

“You cannot force us to do so,” he said, even as he reiterated that neither he nor the Congress was against grant of citizenship of persecuted minorities in other countries, such as Sikhs in Pakistan, but were completely opposed to the discrimination in the CAA against certain religious communities, including the Muslims. (IANS)

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