Former parliamentarian and editor of popular Urdu weekly, ‘Nai Duniya’, Shahid Siddiqui, minces no word in saying that CAB is the most dangerous step of the current regime.

“This is the most dangerous step of Independent India as we accepted the partition with heavy heart, whether it was Maulana Azad, Maulana Husain Ahmed Madni, Sardar Patel or Mahatma Gandhi. We (Indians) rejected the two-nation theory of Jinnah. We need to keep in mind that two people who advocated the two-nation theory were people like Veer Savarkar, the ideologue of RSS and BJP who gave the term ‘Hindutva’ and Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who was the founder of Pakistan.

“These were the two people who said that Hindus and Muslims are two different nations but people like us categorically said that Hinduism and Islam can be two religions, but Hindus and Muslims cannot be two nations. Now, today when the government has come with CAB it is basically advocating the two-nation theory of Jinnah and Savarkar. Today, BJP is implementing the theory of Jinnah. BJP is building an India with Savarkar’s cap and Jinnah’s sherwani,” he said.

“Basically they (the present regime) want to snatch the voting right of the Muslims because they are afraid of Muslim votes as they have a perception that they lose elections because of Muslim votes, but the Hindus of this country who are large hearted will reject these draconian moves of the government. This kind of thinking has ruined countries like Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. Any country which will practice politics in the name of religion can never progress; the only countries that progress are which take everyone along,” Shahid added.