{"id":318391,"date":"2019-12-30T08:13:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T08:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318391"},"modified":"2019-12-30T08:13:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T08:13:26","slug":"pm-modi-launches-outreach-campaign-on-citizenship-law-tweets-sadhguru-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-launches-outreach-campaign-on-citizenship-law-tweets-sadhguru-video\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi launches outreach campaign on Citizenship Law, tweets Sadhguru video"},"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-314535 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PM-Modi-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/PM-Modi-1.jpg 693w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/PM-Modi-1-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/PM-Modi-1-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/PM-Modi-1-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/PM-Modi-1-485x360.jpg 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/PM-Modi-1-566x420.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a Twitter campaign to gather support for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which has triggered protests across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Twitter handle of Modi\u2019s official website said that the CAA is about giving citizenship to persecuted refugees and not about taking anyone\u2019s citizenship away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The message was posted with the hashtag \u201cIndia Supports CAA\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c#IndiaSupportsCAA because CAA is about giving citizenship to persecuted refugees &amp; not about taking anyone\u2019s citizenship away. Check out this hashtag in Your Voice section of Volunteer module on NaMo App for content, graphics, videos &amp; more. Share &amp; show your support for CAA,\u201d Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This was followed by a tweet from the prime minister\u2019s account wherein he posted a video of spiritual guru Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, in support of the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDo hear this lucid explanation of aspects relating to CAA and more by @SadhguruJV. He provides historical context, brilliantly highlights our culture of brotherhood. He also calls out the misinformation by vested interest groups. #IndiaSupportsCAA,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Citizenship (Amendment) Act which was passed by both house of Parliament earlier this month, seeks to provide Indian citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian communities who entered India from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan till December 31, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a Twitter campaign to gather support for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which has triggered protests across the country. The Twitter handle of Modi\u2019s official website said that the CAA is about giving citizenship to persecuted refugees and not about taking anyone\u2019s citizenship away. The message was posted with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12232,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318391"}],"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=318391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318392,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318391\/revisions\/318392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}