Samir Dwivedi,who is son of Congress leader Janardhan Dwivedi, joined the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of its national general secretary Arun Singh on Tuesday 4th February 2020.
“This is my first political party… Looking at the circumstances today, apolitical people should join politics, good and educated people should join politics,” Samir Dwivedi said after joining the BJP at its headquarters.
“There are things which have been done under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership were not possible earlier. The abrogation of Article 370, triple talaq and CAA are its examples,” he said.
“Those who are fuelling protest at Shaheen Bagh are the same people who were praising China in 1962… And, if we do not come forward to support Prime Minister Modiji now we will not be able to control the fire that is raging today,” he said.
“I just want to ask the Muslim women protesters in Shaheen Bagh one question. Did anyone before PM Modi take the decision to end the historic decision to do away with triple talaq? How can a person who abolished the practice of triple talaq take away your citizenship?” he asked.
A former lieutenant general, Samir Dwivedi took voluntary retirement from the Indian Army in 2008. He has served in Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh among other places.
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If more of ex Congress connected citizens join BJP then all the decisions so far taken by PM Modi’s government will be vidicated. Dwivedi’s advice to the protesters at Shaheenbag is timely and correct, the anti Indian elements and their friends in the media are shameless to use the same women who benefited by the tripe Talaq law. What hypocrisy when the same group seems inconvenienced by CAA . don’t the women realise that they are once again emancipated and used by their men for this phony show?