PM spreading false propaganda, says Yechuri

Guwahati: The Communist Party of India (M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechuri has claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet Ministers are spreading False propaganda on the Citizenship Act.

Yechury who came to Guwahati to participate in a protest rally against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act said that the act violates the Constitution. “We will fight to safeguard the Constitution. The citizenship is not based on any religion. Why this government has included non-Muslims of only three countries?,”

The CPI(M) leader said that by linking citizenship to religion through C(A)A, the Modi government is looking for communal polarisation of nation.

Referring the statement of Union home minister Amit Shah that the National Register of Citizens, recently implemented in Assam, will be conducted again, and this time for the entire country,  Yechury said that government’s proposals on NRC will cost the country dearly, socially and economically.

“These proposals are at variance with the founding spirit of the country and violate the principles of equality, secularism of the Constitution,” said Yechury while clarifying that they supported NRC in Assam because it was the part of Assam Accord.He also added that situation of Assam can’t be equated with rest of country.

Meanwhile, Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) on Friday launched a mass signature campaign against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

The “signature campaign” that has been launched by the Congress party will carry 20 lakh signatures as a memorandum to the President of India Ramnath Kovind pleading to roll back the contentious Act.