New Delhi, March 14 -- Union Minister and senior BJP leader Anurag Thakur on Wednesday lashed out at the opponents of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), saying thousands of from the neighbouring countries now living in India were waiting for citizenship. Speaking at a programme at Delhi BJP office here, Thakur said the CAA is a law for providing citizenship not taking it away.
"Thousands of Dalit families from the neighbouring countries whose two to three generations have passed are waiting for citizenship for years," Thakur said. "Do those who came from Pakistan and whose two-three generations have passed have no right to have citizenship," he asked.
After partition of the country, then Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru promised that mi...