New Delhi, Sep 10: Terming the proposed Communal Violence Bill as “dangerous”, the BJP today opposed the legislation at the National Integration Council meeting here, saying it presumes that the majority community is always responsible for such riots.
“We feel that the Communal Violence Bill is a dangerous Bill as it harms the federal structure of the Constitution. It allows the Centre to hold all the powers. Moreover, it does not consider anybody a citizen and treats a person only as one belonging to either a majority or a minority,” Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj told reporters.
Her Rajya Sabha counterpart Arun Jaitley and Chief Ministers of three BJP-ruled states—Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank (Uttarakhand), Sadanand Gowda (Karnataka) and Raman Singh (Chhattisgarh) -- echoed these sentiments at the NIC meeting.
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