Prime Minister has slammed Indian government for its anti Muslim citizenship bill, and urged the world to take action against it.
In a series of tweets Imran Khan slammed India’s Bill, which is widely seen as targeting the country’s Muslim minority.
He said:
India, under Modi, has been moving systematically with its Hindu Supremacist agenda. Starting with illegal annexation & continuing siege of IOJK; then stripping 2 mn Indian Muslim in Assam of citizenship, setting up internment camps; now the passage of Citizenship Amendment Law;
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) December 12, 2019
He added:
All this accompanied by mob lynchings of Muslims & other minorities in India. World must realise, as appeasement of the genocidal Supremacist agenda of Nazi Germany eventually led to WWII, Modi's Hindu Supremacist agenda, accompanied by threats to Pak under a nuclear overhang,
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) December 12, 2019
He further tweeted:
will lead to massive bloodshed & far-reaching consequences for the world. As in Nazi Germany, in Modi's India dissent has been marginalised & the world must step in before it is too late, to counter this Hindu Supremacist agenda of Modi's India threatening bloodshed & war.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) December 12, 2019
It is pertinent to mention that the Citizenship Amendment Bill, passed with a thumping majority in both the Lower and Upper Houses of the Indian Parliament, seeks to grant Indian nationality to non-Muslims from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who migrated to India on or before 31st December 2015.
It still needs to be formally approved by the president but that is widely perceived as a formality.
Opponents have vowed to take the matter to the Supreme Court, arguing that it goes against the secularism enshrined in India’s constitution, as it makes religion a requirement for citizenship.
