India: NDA government was looking at the topic of foreigners seeking to stay in India through the “prism of religion” AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi

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In the backdrop of the Rohingya issue, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday alleged that the NDA government was looking at the topic of foreigners seeking to stay in India through the “prism of religion”.
Owaisi was responding to a query on the Centre’s stance that the Rohingya people staying in the country are not refugees but illegal immigrants.
“The present Modi government has amended the Foreigners Act. They have amended the Passport Act, wherein they said if a Hindu, a Sikh, a Parsi, or a Buddhist or a Christian who is coming from Pakistan, Bangladesh even without valid papers, even without valid passport, we will give them exemption under the Foreigners Act,” he said.
“Now, why is this issue being looked through religious prism wherein this government is practicing that. That is what we are questioning them,” Owaisi told reporters here. [. . .]

SEE original report in The Indian Express here