Protest against Pak’s atrocities on minorities, Modi tells anti-CAA protesters

TIL Desk/National/Karnataka/ Slamming the Congress for opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), Prime Minister Narendra Modi has dared the opposition party to protest against Pakistan for persecuting Hindus living as minorities in the neighbouring country.

”You (Congress leaders) should protest against Pakistan for persecuting Hindus, Sikhs, Parsis and Christians living there as minorities than opposing the CAA, meant to help them return to India and live with dignity and self-respect,” said Modi at a public meeting here, about 70 km from Bengaluru.

Addressing hundreds of students, teachers, devotees and followers of Siddaganga Mutt”s Shivakumar Swamji, the Prime Minister accused the Congress of opposing even the entry of Dalits and other persecuted Hindus from Pakistan.

”The Congress is misleading other parties in opposing the Constitution, as the CAA is the law after its bill was passed by Parliament last month,” said Modi in his 30-minute speech in Hindi, which was translated into the local language (Kannada) by Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi, who hails from Dharwad in Karnataka.