‘No reason to feel defensive’: PM Modi asks NDA leaders to back CAA strongly

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By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: January 31, 2020 9:57:23 pm

At the meeting, the NDA leaders also hailed PM Modi for the Bodo accord and the settlement of Tripura’s Bru tribe members. (Express File Photo)

Calling on NDA leaders to back the Citizenship (Amendment) Act strongly in Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday insisted that his government has no reason to feel defensive about the new legislation.

After a meeting convened for the Budget Session in the national capital, a BJP ally told news agency PTI that the Prime Minister called on his government to aggressively  take on the opposition’s charge that the amended citizenship law discriminated against Muslims and said that minorities are as much “ours as other citizens are”.