TIL Desk/National/Kolkata/ Mounting a strong defence of the new citizenship law, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the dispute that has arisen over it has made the world take notice of the persecution of minorities in Pakistan, which now has to answer for its “acts of oppression”. PM Modi deplored that a section of the youth is being “misguided” over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which is aimed at giving and not taking away anybody’s citizenship.
“Had we not amended the citizenship law, this ”vivaad” (dispute) would not have arisen. Had this dispute not arisen, the world would not have known the kind of atrocities that were perpetrated on the (religious) minorities in Pakistan. “….how human rights have been violated. How the lives of our sisters and daughters were ruined.
It’s the result of our initiative that Pakistan will have to answer for its acts of oppression against the minorities there,” he told a gathering at Belur Math, the headquarters of Ramakrishna Mission. Soon after PM Modi had left the premises, the monastic order distanced itself from his speech, saying it is a political organisation where people of all religious faiths live like “brothers of same parents”.
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