Jaipur, December 31: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator in Rajasthan stoked a row by calling all those opposed to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as "enemies of the country". The list, he said, includes top Opposition leaders who have backed the "violent" anti-CAA stir. The contentious remarks were made by BJP MLA Madan Dilawar while speaking to reporters on Monday. Ban Popular Front of India, Uttar Pradesh DGP Writes to MHA After Violent Anti-CAA Stir.

Dilawar, who represents the Mundi constituency in Rajasthan legislative assembly, said the Congress top brass, including party president Sonia Gandhi, general secretary Priyanka Gandhi and former party chief Rahul Gandhi are acting against the nation by backing the anti-CAA protesters.

"Those who are burning the country and killing police over Citizenship Amendment Act, and those who are supporting them, are enemies of the country, be it Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi," the BJP legislator said.

Update by ANI

Dilawar further courted controversy by saying that those opposed to the CAA must choose either Pakistan or Afghanistan as their homeland. If either of the two countries are not inclined to accept them, then they should drown themselves in the Indian Ocean, he added.

"They do not have the right to live in this country. If they love Pakistan they should go there, if they love Bangladesh they should go there, and if both the countries don't want them, they can drown in the Indian Ocean," the BJP leader was reported as saying.

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