Jharkhand: Prime Minister Narendra Modi countered opposition for spreading lies and creating an atmosphere of fear for Muslims in the country against the Citizenship Act.
“I challenge Congress and their allies if they have the guts they should openly declare that they will give Indian citizenship to every Pakistani citizen and that they will bring back Article 370 in Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh,” said PM Modi, while addressing an election rally in Jharkhand’s Berhait.
PM Modi underlined that it Citizenship Act doesn’t snatch away any rights of the Indian citizen.
“Congress and its allies are instigating Muslims for political purpose,” he said.
“Stop this guerrilla politics. The Indian Constitution is our only holy book. I appeal to the youth in colleges to debate our policies and protest democratically. We will listen to you. But some parties, urban Naxals, are firing off your shoulders,” Modi addressed the students who are protesting against the law.
Protests against the citizenship law, which gives citizenship to migrants of six non-Muslim minority communities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan, had turned violent on Sunday in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia as police baton-charged several of them and barged inside the campus.
Parliament had passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, last week and it became an act after receiving assent from President Ram Nath Kovind.
Since then, protests have erupted in various parts of the country over the new law and at least five people have been killed and hundreds injured.