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Modi defends CAA, NRC at mega rally

Assures Muslims of no detention centres as protests swell across India

Star Report
Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday sought to reassure India's Muslims as a wave of deadly protests against a new citizenship law put his Hindu nationalist government under pressure like never before.
At least 25 people, a majority of them
in the most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, have died and hundreds injured in 10 days of demonstrations and violence after Modi's government passed the law criticised as anti-Muslim. More protests took place yesterday.
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Addressing party supporters in New Delhi - who cried "Modi! Modi!" at the mention of the law - the 69-year-old said Muslims "don't need to worry at all" - provided they are genuine Indians.
"Muslims who are sons of the soil and whose ancestors are the children of mother India need not to worry" about the law and his plans to cany out a national register of citizens (NRC), Modi told the crowd of thousands.
Accusing the main opposition Congress party of condoning the recent violence by not condemning it, Modi said opponents were "spreading rumours that all Muslims will be sent to detention camps."
"There are no detention centres. All these stories about detention centres are lies, lies and lies," he said.
He ruled out going back on the citizenship law issue and asserted the law does not have anything to do with Muslims who are Indian citizens
nor does it snatch away anyone's citizenship.
"The Citizenship Amendment Act is not for Indian citizens. This has been said in parliament (last week). The Act is not aimed at snatching anybody's citizenship but at giving citizenship," he said and urged the agitators not to resort to violence in the interests of the country.
"No new refugee (from the three countries) will benefit from CAA," he said referring to the law which seeks to give Indian citizenship to those who have come to India from the three neighbouring countries till 2014.
Modi said the opposition parties were not able to reconcile with his growing acceptance in the Islamic world some of which like the UAE conferred their highest civilian honour on him and India's strong ties with the Islamic countries like Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iran, the UAE, Bahrain and Qatar.