‘Fellow BJP Leaders Taunt us, Treat us as Infiltrators’, Say Muslim BJP Leaders Who Quit Party in MP

'Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has launched a door-to-door campaign in Madhya Pradesh to drum up support for the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA) and the National Population Register (NPR), it has been unable to quell discontent brewing among its own workers. The anger was apparent when two senior office-bearers of the Madhya Pradesh BJP Minority Cell resigned from the party in protest against CAA-NPR-NRC. Now, many of their colleagues have decided to follow suit and plan to hold a meeting on January 11 to discuss ‘en masse’ resignations from the party. These members have alleged that their fellow leaders taunt them for being Muslims and pass religion-based defamatory comments on social media. Although they have been serving the party for years, they are being termed Bangladeshi and Pakistani, the alleged...'