Lies being spread on CAA, NRC, says PM in combative speech at Ramlila Maidan

New Delhi : As protests grip the country over the alleged communal connotations of CAA and NRC, PM Modi assured voters in Delhi that no Indian Muslim will be affected by the CAA and the NRC.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was addressing crowd at a BJP rally in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan ahead of the assembly elections in Delhi. Slamming the Aam Aadmi Party for failing to provide adequate welfare for the people of Delhi, the prime minister’s focus soon shifted to the controversial issue of citizenship. “A lie is being spread that this government has brought the law to snatch people’s rights,” the prime minister said and dared rivals to find anything discriminatory in his work.

Exclaiming from the stage in Delhi, PM Modi held the opposition (primarily Congress) and “Urban Naxals” responsible for spreading misinformation about the CAA and the NRC. He urged voters to respect the mandate that the BJP had been given in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as well as respect those MPs who were responsible for the passing of the CAA.

Interacting with Ten News ahead of rally Manoj tiwari said “We had collected signatures of 11 lakh residents of these colonies. These will be handed over to the prime minister as a gesture of gratitude for the Centre’s role in removing the “unauthorised” tag from the colonies where 40 lakh people live, he said.

Further, Tiwari claimed that the BJP’s rally will be “historic” and around 1.25 lakh people will witness the rally. AAP party has done nothing is 5 years and know they are just trying to mislead the people of Delhi.

The prime minister also slammed violence in protests and attacks on the police. “33,000 police personnel sacrificed their lives for peace and security in the country since Independence. Today, you are brutally thrashing them. When any problem arises, police don’t ask your religion or caste, whatever the weather or time they are there to help you.”

This is the first time the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made a public statement about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act since it was passed. While earlier the PM had tweeted asking people to not engage in violence, on Sunday he addressed the fears surrounding the CAA and the NRC