CHICAGO – BJP-RSS ideologue and a staunch Modi-supporter NRI, Dr Bharat Barai hosted a press conference here and alleged that it is Sonia Gandhi and Gandhi Family’s Congress Party that is organizing the ongoing Anti-CAA, Anti-NRC and Anti-NPR unrests all over India. Terming the CAA a “one time exception” Barai stressed that there is nothing wrong in the CAA. He addressed Chicagoland based Indian mediamen.
Through this press conference, Dr Bharat Barai attempted to explain the real spirit of CAA and its and allayed the misconceptions raging among the Muslims and non-Indians in US. There is nothing against Indian Muslims in Citizenship Amendment ACT (CAA), recently passed in Indian Parliament, he emphasized.
A press man, Keerthi Ravoori, suggested that Consul General Sudhakar Dalela should have community meetings and educate Indian diaspora about the true spirit of the Act. No such effort has taken place as of now.
He compared CAA with President Obama’s DACA that provided path to education and legal status to children of undocumented immigrants in US.
Dr Bharat Barai read from the actual text of CAA as published by the Ministry of Law, Government of India. The Act, he said, is meant to grant citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsee or Christian refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who entered into India before 31st of December 2014. All such illegal migrants will get Indian citizenship under this Act. Their children will go to schools and colleges.
He allayed minorities’ fear that CAA is prelude to NRC. He asserted that the Act has been enacted on humanitarian grounds to help refugees who faced hardships.
He also pointed that CAA has something for NRIs too. If anyone gets his OCI status in problem for any violation, the Act has a relief that, “No order be passed unless the Overseas Citizen of India has been given a reasonable opportunity of being heard.”
A press man, Keerthi Ravoori, suggested that Consul General Sudhakar Dalela should have community meetings and educate Indian diaspora about the true spirit of the Act. No such effort has taken place as of now.
Earlier, President of the Chicago-based NRI Press Club, Mr Madhu Patel welcomed Dr Bharat Barai and the attendees.