Raising Pro-Azadi Slogans Like Kashmir In Anti-CAA Protests Will Invite Sedition Charges, Warns UP CM Yogi Adityanath

Slamming the ongoing protests against the amended Citizenship Act, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday (22 January) said that it was “shameful” that he men are sitting in the comfort of their homes, while women and children have been out on the streets to agitate, reports The New Indian Express.

"These people do not have courage to participate in the protests themselves. They know if they indulge in vandalism, their property will be seized. Now what have they done? They started making the women sit at roads. The children have been made to sit. It's such a big crime that the men are sleeping under the quilt and the women are made to sit at roads. It is shameful," CM Yogi said while addressing a rally in support of the CAA in Kanpur.

CM Yogi also slammed Congress and other opposition parties for doing politics at the cost of the nation.

"For them, the country is not important. The Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Parsis are not important. Now, for the Congress, even the Christians are not important. And they have said the protests will continue against the CAA until the ISI agents are given entry into India," he alleged, adding, "This is a shameful statement made by Congress leaders,” the UP CM said.

He added that though protesting peacefully is everyone’s right but if anybody indulges in damaging public property, the state government will recover the damage from that person’s property.

"I would like to say from the soil of India, and especially from the soil of Uttar Pradesh, that if pro-Azadi slogans are raised here in the name of protests, like there used to be in Kashmir, then it will come in the category of sedition and stringent action will be taken by the government," Adityanath said.

Nobody will be allowed to hatch a conspiracy against India while living in India, he added.