Opposition inciting violence by spreading misinformation on CAA: Amit Shah

“No Indian Muslim will lose citizenship,” the home minister asserted

Union Home Minister Amit Shah | PTI Union Home Minister Amit Shah | PTI

Even as northeast areas of Delhi, which witnessed large-scale violence and riots, are gradually limping back to normalcy, Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched a scathing attack on the opposition, accusing them of inciting violence by spreading misinformation on the Citizenship Amendment Act.

Addressing a rally of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Odisha's Bhubaneswar, Shah said the opposition parties, including Congress, Lefts, Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, were claiming that the Muslims would lost their citizenship if the CAA was implemented. 

“Why is opposition lying about the CAA? I here again repeat that citizenship of any Muslim or minority will not be taken away through CAA, because it is an Act to give citizenship not to take it away,” Shah asserted.

He said people should come out and ask those fomenting trouble to explain which clause of the CAA talked about snatching citizenship of people.

Shah said the Narendra Modi government addressed several intractable issues that had festered for 70 years, including repeal of provisions of Article 370 that gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir and prevented its integration with the rest of the country.