BJP national-vice president Baijyant Pandya on Friday accused the Congress of "provoking people" over the amended citizenship law.
He said the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) aimed at enabling refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan live with respect in India but the Congress "was provoking people".
He said the Congress Party committed a sin by "accepting religion-based partition" in 1947 while paying "no heed to the plight of minorities left in Pakistan".
Pandya was addressing a party meeting in Jaipur after the election of Satish Poonia as the state BJP president.
Addressing the meeting, Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai questioned what harm the CAA caused should be made clear by the Congress.
He said the new Act would benefit the immigrants in terms of education and employment.
Poonia targeted the state Congress government, saying it had failed to deliver and "not a single development work" took place in the past one year.
Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, the Leader of Opposition in the state assembly, Gulab Chand Kataria, and other leaders were present in the meeting.
Permission denied to BJP MLA to hold pro-CAA meet
Permission was denied to Telangana BJP MLA Raja Singh to hold a public meeting in support of the CAA at the NTR stadium in Hyderabad on Saturday as he did not produce any proof of booking the ground, among other reasons, police said on Friday.
A book fair was already going on at the stadium and there was a possibility of law and order and traffic being affected as other groups, opposed to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), had also planned events on Saturday, they said.
In a video message, Raja Singh, the Goshamahal MLA, took objection to permission being denied to him and asked as to why permission was not given to him while the AIMIM was given permission to organise anti-CAA protest meetings at Nizamabad on Friday and at the AIMIM office in Hyderabad earlier.
