Will not allow another partition on religious lines: Yashwant Sinha

Former Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on Thursday said that he will not allow the present regime to orchestrate another partition of the country on religious lines.

Addressing a conference on the conclusion of his 3000 km long Gandhi Shanti Yatra, Sinha hit out at the Modi government and said that those who believe on the ideology of the killer of Gandhi are sitting in power but “people of this country will not allow them to kill Gandhi again.”

Sinha accused the Uttar Pradesh government of “state-sponsored” violence against people protesting the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. “I have been in that party (BJP); they are cowards,” the leader of the Rashtra Manch claimed.

When asked about the CAA that was passed in the time of Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 2003, Sinha said religion was not made a criterion for the grant of the citizenship.

Saying that Constitution is in danger, Sinha said people are angry with the present government.

Speaking on the occasion, Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar said Modi government and their supporters brand us (dissidents) as anti-nationals and call us ‘tukde-tukde gang’ but they (BJP) are the real tuke-tukde gang. “We are not doing tukde tukde but it is the ruling dispensation which is doing so,” said Aiyar.

“The women are being threatened and called anti-national, but these women are saying India is ours, the Constitution is ours and the Tiranga is our flag,” added Aiyar.

Addressing the media persons, Pawan Varma, who was expelled from the JD (U) on Wednesday, said divisive politics is being played in the country for political gains.“We have to fight as Indians,” he asserted.