KUALA LUMPUR: Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysian Prime Minister condemned a new citizenship law in India as protests over it spread across the South Asian country.
Malaysian PM while speaking to Media Mahathir Mohamad ondemned the new law and questioned the reasoning behind the adoption of it by a country that claims to be secular.
“I think we have accepted the Indians who came to this country. The Chinese who came to this country. We give them citizenship, even when they do not qualify. And they are all in the government. But I am sorry to see India, which claims to be a secular state, now taking action to deprive some Muslims of their citizenship,” he said.
“Of course, if we do that here, you know what will happen. There will be chaos, instability, and everybody will suffer. Already, people are dying, because of this law. So why is there a necessity to do this thing when all this while, for seventy years almost, they have lived together as citizens without any problems,” the Malaysian PM noted.
Responding to the Malaysian prime minister’s statement, New Delhi in a statement said, “The prime minister of Malaysia has yet again remarked on a matter that is entirely internal to India. The Act provides for citizenship through naturalization to be fast-tracked for non-citizens, it does not impact in any manner on the status of any citizen of India.”
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