Hyderabad: Union minister of state for home G. Kishan Reddy on Friday appealed to the Muslims not to believe the “propaganda of Opposition parties” against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR), which have been the subject of so many protests across the country.
He was addressing the audience after launching a ‘Gruha Sampark Abhiyan’, an awareness campaign on the CAA at Padmaraonagar, Secund-erabad, on Sunday.
The Union minister accused the Congress, MIM and Telangana Rashtra Samiti of trying to disturb the peace and create animosity.
India, he declared, is a secular state, and the new law (CAA) was made in order to grant citizenship to refugees coming from the Islamic States of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan due to attacks on them, and the Modi government has decided to grant citizenship to the refugees and protect them.
He said the law would not cancel the citizenship of a single Muslim and there would not be any trouble for anyone.
Mr Reddy said that under the Gruha Sampark Abhiyan, BJP cadres will visit people in their homes and explain the features of the CAA and clear the misconceptions in the minds of communities, and party leaders will contact the Muslim residents and explain the CAA’s provisions.
Pointing out that the CAA is meant to protect the human rights of refugees who are facing trouble in Islamic countries, he found fault with human rights activists for not supporting the CAA.
Party state president Dr K. Laxman, MLC N. Ramchander Rao and core committee member P. Sudhakar Reddy participated in the campaign.
