Addressing a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Saturday at New Delhi, Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi critisised the new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) describing the law being discriminatory and intended to divide Indians on religious lines. The sinister purpose of the law is clear to every patriotic, tolerant and secular Indian: it is to divide the Indian people on religious lines". She also said becuse of CAA country wide protests took place.
She charged that the situation in some states and few Universities is alarming. She demanded that a comprehensive high-powered commission be constituted to enquire into the incidents connected with the anti-CAA protests and give justice to the affected persons.
Also criticising the National Population Register (NPR), Ms Gandhi told top leaders of the Congress not to be under any illusion that it was a "benign exercise". "In form and content, NPR 2020 is a disguised NRC," she said. Ms Gandhi also hit out at the government over the state of the economy and the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
