Amit Shah's Counter-Strike Amid Opposition Protests Over Citizenship Law
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Amit Shah said crores of people fled to India from Pakistan and Bangladesh to "save their religion and honour", but did not get citizenship.
Countering the Opposition's charge over the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said the Congress had opposed the law for "appeasement" and "vote bank politics". हमने कहा था कि हम CAA लाएँगे…We said that we would bring the CAA... pic.twitter.com/QAlQ2UMQ8S
"We had said we would bring CAA. Congress has opposed CAA. Since Independence, the Congress and the makers of the Constitution had promised that we would give citizenship to refugees from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan who suffered atrocities there. But the Congress opposed this due to appeasement and vote bank politics," he said at a meeting of the BJP's social media volunteers.
The Home Minister said crores of people fled to India from Pakistan and Bangladesh to "save their religion and honour", but did not get citizenship. "Without citizenship, they would suffer insults in their own country. Narendra Modi has honoured Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs by granting them citizenship," he said.
