Amit Shah on Partition: 'Appeasement politics of Congress to blame, not Muslims'

Union Home Minister Amit Shah at Rising Bharat Summit

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday rallied behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent remarks on Partition and said that the common Muslims of the country never wanted division of India.

“Muslims never wanted division of the country, and PM Modi has rightly said that the Congress leaders of that time are responsible for the country’s partition, their appeasement politics is responsible for it,” Shah said while speaking at the News18 Rising Bharat Summit.

“I want to tell the country’s youth today. Tolerate anything else, but appeasement is one such poisonous ideology, which must be rejected by the youth. Those who do appeasement politics are against the nation’s interests. They compromise with policies for national interest for the sake of their vote bank.”

Speaking at the Rising Bharat Summit on Tuesday, PM Modi on Tuesday said that the two-nation theory was imposed from the top and did not reflect the will of most Muslims who believed in unity and coexistence.

PM Modi said that the Congress got power after Independence due to appeasement politics, and wondered what the common Muslims got." The poor Muslim got poverty, no jobs or education, and women got injustice like Shah Bano, where their constitutional rights were crushed because of extremism," he said.