NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday backed the Election Commission’s SIR, and said Hindus from Pakistan and Bangladesh have rights on Indian soil while distinguishing refugees from infiltrators. “I want to ask all citizens, who should decide who becomes the prime minister or chief minister? Should anyone other than the citizens of the country have the right to decide this?” Shah asked at an event in New Delhi, reported news agency PTI. Shah said that Hindus in Pakistan were promised refuge in India under the Nehru-Liaquat Pact after partition, but the successive governments failed to honour that promise, which was finally fulfilled by the Modi government through the Citizenship Amendment Act. “Just as much right I have on the soil of this country, that much right the H

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