Driving Naari Programme launched in Chandigarh
Hubballi (Karnataka)
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday challenged Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to prove that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act would take away citizenship from Indian Muslims, as he advised him to read the Act completely. Terming those against the CAA as “anti-Dalits”, Shah said that there was no clause in the new Act that took away citizenship of Muslims, and accused the Congress of trying to create confusion.
Addressing a public meeting here on the CAA as part of the BJP’s nationwide ‘Jan Jagran Abhiyan’, he accused the Congress of dividing the country on the basis of religion.
The BJP national president also accused the Congress, the Communist Party, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the JDS, BSP and SP of indulging in vote-bank politics on the CAA.
Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi and several BJP leaders attended the rally.
In another event, Shah said, “PM Narendra Modi is touring across the globe as the flag-bearer of the Indian culture and tradition. Modi took a holy dip in Ganga and attended Ganga Aarati in Varanasi before taking oath as the PM.” Shah also slammed the previous governments for their wrong interpretation of secularism. — PTI
Pune stir enters 9th day
A massive demonstration against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the NRC and the NPR in Pune, which organisers are calling “Shaheen Bagh in Khondwa,” entered its ninth day on Saturday, with the crowds undeterred by falling mercury in the second largest city of Maharashtra.
The protest, outside Konark Mall in Kondhwa, has been organised under the banner of Kul Jamaat-e-Tanzeem, an umbrella body of several outfits.
Hundreds of anti-CAA protesters have camped in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh area for over a month now, leading to blockade of the Kalindi Kunj-Shaheen Bagh road, a key link between Noida and Delhi.
