{"id":319462,"date":"2020-01-28T10:17:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T10:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319462"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:17:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T10:17:52","slug":"brought-caa-to-correct-historical-injustice-pm-modi-at-ncc%e2%80%89rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/brought-caa-to-correct-historical-injustice-pm-modi-at-ncc%e2%80%89rally\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Brought CAA to correct historical injustice\u2019: \u00a0PM Modi at NCC\u2009rally"},"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-319463 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PM-Modi-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/PM-Modi-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/PM-Modi-3-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/PM-Modi-3-487x420.jpg 487w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the citizenship law was brought by the government to correct historical injustice and fulfil promise to minorities in neighbouring countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking at a rally of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) in Delhi, PM Modi said the present government has been trying to solve decades old problems plaguing the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPrevious governments treated the problem as a law and order issue,\u201d Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi said, \u201cthe opposition is spreading propaganda that the decision government took have &#8220;affected my reputation in the entire world&#8221;. &#8220;These rumor-mongers must understand that I don&#8217;t work for my reputation, but for India&#8217;s repute,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Listing out the achievements of the government, PM Modi referred to the Bodo agreement, triple talaq law and abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Citizenship Act allows citizenship for Hindus, Bhuddhists, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Christians who allegedly fled religious persecution in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and returned to India on or before December 31, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Four state governments &#8211; West Bengal,\u2009Kerala, Punjab and Rajasthan have already passed a resolution against the Citizenship Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the citizenship law was brought by the government to correct historical injustice and fulfil promise to minorities in neighbouring countries. Speaking at a rally of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) in Delhi, PM Modi said the present government has been trying to solve decades old problems plaguing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[316,12508],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319462"}],"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=319462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319464,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319462\/revisions\/319464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}