A couple of days after Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was notified, Home Minister Amit Shah in Jabalpur launched a scathing attack on Trinamool Congress and Congress party for “misleading” the nation on CAA and challenged them to point out at a single provision in the law which takes away anyone's citizenship.
He also asserted in the rally that as much as we belong to India, Hindus, Christian, Sikhs, and Buddhists from Pakistan and other South Asian countries have the same rights in this country and pledged that CAA will give citizenship to them.
"I challenge Mamata Banerjee and Rahul Baba, to find out a provision from CAA that can take citizenship away from anyone in this country." Amit Shah said.
The Home Minister was addressing the rally at Garrison ground in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur as part of BJP's outreach programme to create awareness on CAA. The visit comes a week after BJP launched a 10-day door to door campaign to reach out to masses on CAA.
Accusing the Congress party of dividing the country, Home Minister said, "When the partition of the country took place, it was Congress party which divided the country on the basis of religion."
"The Hindus, Sikhs, Parsis, Jain, who lived in both East and West Pakistan, wanted to come here, but they stayed there because of bloodshed. Our leaders had assured these people a home in India and we are only doing that through CAA," he added.
He also cited the data that the population of minorities in Pakistan dipped from 30 percent in 1947 to 3 percent now.