Tamil Actor Siddharth Criticizes Union Home Minister Amit Shah on NRC Remark

New Delhi, October 2, 2019:

Tamil actor Siddharth has criticized Union Home Minister Amit Shah for his latest remarks on the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

Shah, during his visit to Kolkata, said that he would ensure that the Citizenship (Amendment Bill) would be implemented before NRC comes into the picture and that Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist and Christian refugees would not be compelled to leave India.

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In response to this remark, Siddharth took to Twitter and posted, “How is the Home Monster allowed to speak like this? Is it not against the constitution to tell refugees that only the Muslims among them will be forced to leave India by the govt? What is going on? These are the seeds of ethnic cleansing being sown in the open for all to see!”

Earlier, the Tamil actor had shared his views on Shah’s idea of imposing the Hindi language in all Indian schools. He had written, “There is a big difference between a native #Tamil speaker learning #Hindi vs. being forced to study it and write exams in it. I speak 5 languages and understand 10. I wasn’t forced to learn them and that's how it should be. #India is a mixture of great languages. Leave them be.”

The recent draft version of the National Education Policy 2019 has made it compulsory to learn the Hindi language in non-Hindi speaking states.

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