{"id":317736,"date":"2019-12-10T11:19:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T11:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317736"},"modified":"2019-12-10T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T11:19:27","slug":"citizenship-amendment-bill-an-attack-on-constitution-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/citizenship-amendment-bill-an-attack-on-constitution-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizenship (Amendment) Bill an \u2018attack on constitution&#8217;: Rahul Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-308590 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rahul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"815\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul.jpg 815w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-696x465.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-628x420.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday strongly opposed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, calling it an &#8216;attack on the constitution&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He criticised the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Bill as a move that would &#8220;destroy the foundation&#8221; of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe #CAB is an attack on the Indian constitution. Anyone who supports it is attacking and attempting to destroy the foundation of our nation,\u201d Rahul tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi has also opposed the bill, by saying that India\u2019s tryst with bigotry and narrow-minded exclusion was confirmed as the bill was passed in the Lok Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cLast night at midnight, India\u2019s tryst with bigotry and narrow minded exclusion was confirmed as the CAB was passed in the Lok Sabha. Our forefathers gave their lifeblood for our freedom. In that freedom, is enshrined the right to equality, and the right to freedom of religion,\u201d Priyanka said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOur constitution, our citizenship, our dreams of a strong and unified India belong to ALL of us. We will fight against this government\u2019s agenda to systematically destroy our constitution and undo the fundamental premise on which our country was built with all our might,\u201d Priyanka added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bill will be presented in the Rajya Sabha tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bill was passed in the Lok Sabha on Monday with 311 members favouring it, 80 voting against it after a heated debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill seeks to grant Indian Citizenship to persons belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities who have migrated to India after facing persecution on grounds of religion in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, if they fulfil conditions for grant of citizenship.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday strongly opposed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, calling it an &#8216;attack on the constitution&#8217;. He criticised the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Bill as a move that would &#8220;destroy the foundation&#8221; of India. \u201cThe #CAB is an attack on the Indian constitution. Anyone who supports it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[1760,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317745,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317736\/revisions\/317745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}