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BJP leaders who had come to Hospete, Karnataka on December 6, to create awareness on the much debated and contentious law Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), faced a blockade from local residents proving to be an embarrassing situation for them.
A few Muslims and those belonging to SC/ST communities formed a human chain when the leaders and the party workers reached there to distribute pamphlets and asked the leaders to go back. A resident of Chalavadikeri locality told The Deccan Herald, “We aren’t against the BJP. We are living in harmony in our locality. We don’t want anybody to divide us.”
The Deccan Herald reported that the situation was tense for about half an hour as members of the two sides had an argument. The BJP leaders departed after the police persuaded them not to enter inside.
The BJP leaders are following, what seems like a diktat, issued by the higher ups of BJP to all its party leaders to create awareness and inform eh ‘misinformed’ people about the facts of CAA. So far BJP has resorted measures like door-to-door campaigning, distributing information pamphlets and introducing a number to give missed call on for people to register their support for the discriminative law.
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