Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said that people who left their homes in Pakistan after Partition and those who fled persecution in Bangladesh lived without citizenship or land for decades until his government came to power.
Speaking at a function in Lucknow to mark the ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’, Adityanath also blamed the Congress for failing to grant citizenship to the displaced people and said “enemy property” should have been distributed among Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jains arriving from Pakistan.
Enemy property is land left behind by people who migrated to a country considered an enemy nation.
“Had Narendra Modi been the prime minister of India at the time of Independence, nobody would have been able to damage India in the slightest,” he said.
“If a person like Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was the prime minister at that time, nobody would have been able to disintegrate India … The country had to pay a heavy price for the cowardice of these Congress members — a character you all witnessed during the CAA protests,” he added.
The BJP leader also alleged that in 1947, Pakistan got the share of land which it never even asked for.
Sindh was a Hindu-dominated and Sindi-dominated area, which was forcibly handed over to Pakistan; similarly, Punjabi-dominated Punjab was handed over, he claimed.
“Bengal was Bengali-dominated. All Hindu villages were forcibly given to Bangladesh. This shameful act was committed by the Congress, which was extra-restless for power, and on whom the country had reposed its trust. It repaid that trust with betrayal,” Adityanath said.
The chief minister alleged that the Congress was silent even when Hindus were attacked in Bangladesh.
“They feared that reacting to the events in Bangladesh might cause their vote bank here to drift away. To them, the murder of Dalit Hindus holds no significance; what matters is their own vote bank,” he said.
Adityanath accused the Congress of prioritising power and treating the country as its personal property and a family legacy.
He also said that the country became a “slave” due to infighting and caste, region, and language divisions.
“When such infighting exists, then conspiracy easily creeps in,” he said.
