Exuding confidence that the ruling NDA will win over 400 seats in the Lok Sabha polls, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said people are being misled over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and asserted that the law will not take away the citizenship of anyone living in India.
Addressing a rally in Assam’s Barpeta, he said the CAA will grant citizenship to religiously persecuted people who came to India till 2014 from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
Singh was campaigning for BJP ally Asom Gana Parishad’s candidate Phani Bhusan Choudhury, who is contesting the Barpeta Lok Sabha constituency, currently represented by Congress MP Abdul Khaleque.
“The people are being misled over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act… I assure you that this Act will not take away the citizenship of any people. It will only grant citizenship,” the Defence Minister said.