No scope for outside interference in India’s internal matters: Venkaiah Naidu

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NEW DELHI, Jan 27, 2020 (BSS) – In the backdrop of the reported
resolutions moved in European Union (EU) parliament on Citizenship Amendment
Act (CAA) and Jammu and Kashmir issues, Vice President of India M. Venkaiah
Naidu today asserted that there was no scope for outside interference in
India’s internal matters.

Expressing his concern over the trend of foreign bodies interfering in
matters that are completely within the purview of the Indian Parliament and
the Indian government, he said that “such efforts were totally uncalled for
and unwarranted”.

The Indian vice-president expressed the hope that they would refrain from
making such statements in future.

His remarks came in the perspective of the resolutions tabled in EU
parliament on the CAA and Jammu and Kashmir issues recently.

Speaking at a book releasing function here today Naidu said that as a
mature Republic and democratic country. India is capable of addressing the
concerns of its citizens and needs no advice or guidance in such matters from
others.

“As a Republic of 70 years of experience, we have successfully withstood
various challenges and have overcome several challenges. We are now more
united than ever before and no one should have any concern in this regard”,
he said.

“The Vice President complimented the people of our country for India’s
successful 70-year long journey as a Republic and said that we as a nation
will always be committed to Justice, Liberty and Equality for all of our
citizens,” according to an official handout.

As many as 600 of 751 members of the EU parliament have moved six
resolutions on both the issues, their greatest concern arising over the
likelihood of the citizenship law creating the “largest statelessness crisis
in the world”, according to Indian media reports.

The six groups of European Union parliamentarians who moved the
resolutions are the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats with 154
members, the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) with 182 members,
European United Left and Nordic Green Left with 41 members, Greens/European
Free Alliance with 75 members, Conservatives and Reformists with 66 members
and the Renew Europe Group with 108 members, the media reports said.