Government will not allow educational institutions turn into politicking hubs: HRD Minister
Kolkata/IBNS: Amid anti-CAA protests in the various universities across the country, Union human resource development minister Ramesh Pokhriyal has said the government will not tolerate educational institutions turning into hubs of political activities at "any cost".
The Minister said that anyone is free to engage in political activities but universities and colleges should be kept out of the influence of politics as many students come to study from far-flung places.
"The Narendra Modi government is not going to tolerate this at any cost," he was quoted as saying by NDTV.
He accused the Congress of spreading lies and confusion on CAA. "It is the Congress, which is responsible for the country's division on religious grounds, that is spreading misinformation about CAA," he said.
He pointed out that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee protested against illegal infiltrators when she was an MP in 2005.
"She had vociferously demanded the Citizenship Amendment Bill back then," he was quoted as saying by the news organisation.
He justified the amended citizenship law which grants citizenship to the minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, saying that those countries are not secular.
He asserted that the religious minorities, including Hindus, Buddhist, Sikhs, Jains and Christians, accounted for 23 per cent of Pakistan's population at the time of partition, but now reduced to 3 per cent.
"I want to ask Mamata ji, where have these people gone and the Congress should also give an answer as to whether they were forced to change religion or killed or forced to flee?" he said.
On protests against Governor of West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankar in universities, he said it is the failure of the state government and underscored that the law and order situation in the state is slipping out of the hands of the administration.
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