Oppn lying on detention centres for Muslims: PM

When we authorised colonies, did we ask anyone their religion? Did we ask which political party they support?

NEWDELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused Congress and “urban Naxals” of spreading rumours and misleading and inciting people over the controversial citizenship act during a rally in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan amid countrywide protests over the new legislation.

The Prime Minister also backed the police force, which has been charged with brutality and firing at agitators during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019. The protests against the new legislation have spread across the country and at least 23 protesters have died in police action in the past week.

The highest number of deaths have been reported from Uttar Pradesh in protests that have taken place in the aftermath of this month’s passage of CAA, which seeks to fast-track the grant of Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Jains and Parsi in the Muslim-majority countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

The death toll has risen to 17 in the state with the fatalities in Saturday’s unrest and the overnight deaths of six people hurt in clashes on Friday. Many of them died of bullet injuries.

“I want to ask them when we authorised the unauthorised colonies, did we ask anyone about their religion? Did we ask which political party do they support? Did we ask for documents from 1970, 1980?” Modi questioned while speaking at the ‘Aabhar Rally’.

“Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians all befitted. Everyone who lives here was benefitted. Why did we do this? Because we live for the love of the country. We are dedicated to the mantra of ‘Sabka saath, sabka vikas’,” he said.

NARENDRA MODI, Prime Minister

“Today those people who are misleading Muslims in the name of papers and certificates, they should remember that we did not put restrictions in terms of paper while choosing beneficiaries of schemes for the betterment of the poor,” he continued.

As he questioned the opposi

Congress, its friends and some urban Naxals are spreading rumours that all Muslims will be sent to detention centres... Respect your education, read what the Citizenship Amendment Act and NRC are.