{"id":318768,"date":"2020-01-12T08:03:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T08:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318768"},"modified":"2020-01-12T08:03:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T08:03:43","slug":"youth-being-misled-on-citizenship-amendment-act-pm-modi-in-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/youth-being-misled-on-citizenship-amendment-act-pm-modi-in-kolkata\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth being misled on Citizenship Amendment Act: PM Modi in Kolkata"},"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-318769 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PM-Modi-kolkata.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"751\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/PM-Modi-kolkata.jpg 751w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/PM-Modi-kolkata-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/PM-Modi-kolkata-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/PM-Modi-kolkata-696x511.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/PM-Modi-kolkata-572x420.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on two day visit to Kolkata, today accused the opposition of spreading misinformation about the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Addressing students at the Belur Math, the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Mission, PM Modi said, youths are being misguided about the new law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He reiterated that \u2018the Act is not meant to snatch anyone&#8217;s citizenship, but to give citizenship\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi asserted that the CAA will not take away Indian citizenship but grant it to those who faced religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi said that some people with political interests are purposely spreading rumours about the new law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also met PM Modi on Saturday in what she called a courtesy call.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mamata, after meeting PM Modi went to join the protest on Saturday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A nationwide protest was seen after CAA was passed in the parliament. Several youths across India voiced against it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on two day visit to Kolkata, today accused the opposition of spreading misinformation about the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Addressing students at the Belur Math, the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Mission, PM Modi said, youths are being misguided about the new law. He reiterated that \u2018the Act is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":318769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2014,2917],"tags":[1714,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318768"}],"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=318768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318770,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318768\/revisions\/318770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/318769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}