Daijiworld Media Network - New Delhi (SHP)
New Delhi, Dec 26: Addressing at the nation's capital, where elections are due next year, Home Minister Amit Shah slammed the Congress party for spreading false information on CAA. He accused the rival party of inciting violence in the last few weeks.
"It's time to teach Delhi's tukde-tukde gang a lesson," Shah said.
"Citizenship Amendment Act was discussed in the parliament. Nobody (the opposition leaders) said anything... Once they were out (of parliament), they started misleading people," he added.
"I want to say that it is time to punish the tukde-tukde gang led by Congress. They are to be blamed for the violence in the city. People in Delhi should punish them," he further said, raising the poll pitch. 'Tukde-Tukde' is a term coined by the right-wing parties to attack the opposition parties and those who support them.
Meanwhile, during a Sunday rally, PM Modi launching the BJP's campaign for assembly elections said, "The Congress and its allies, some urban Naxals, are spreading rumours that all Muslims will be sent to detention centres... Neither is anybody sending the country's Muslims to detention centres nor are there any detention centres in India...,"
The BJP is eyeing a comeback in the national capital after two decades.
The Citizenship (Amendment) Act makes religion the test of citizenship in India for the first time. The government says it will help minorities from three Muslim-dominated countries to get citizenship if they fled to India because of religious persecution. Critics say it is designed to discriminate against Muslims and violates the secular principles of the constitution