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West Pakistan refugees have every right to claim citizenship: BJP
Breaking its silence on issuing of identity certificates to West Pakistan refugees, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that it wouldn't "compromise" on a humanitarian issue, a media report said today.
The BJP state general secretary (organisation), Ashok Koul said that since these refugees had been living in different parts of the Jammu region since 1947, they had every right to stake a claim on citizenship like other residents of the state, reported The Tribune.
He said that the granting of rights to WPRs was purely a humanitarian issue and some political parties had launched a "malicious" campaign only for petty political gains.