"CAA not anti-Muslim": Amit Shah slams opposition attacks on Citizenship Law

Stressing that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is not against the Muslims, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has accused the Opposition parties of resorting to "politics of lies".

"I have spoken on CAA at least 41 times on different platforms and spoken in detail that the minorities of the country need not be afraid because it has no provision to take back the rights of any citizen," Mr Shah told news agency ANI in an interview.

The CAA, he said, aims to give citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim migrants, including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, who arrived in India before December 31, 2014.