The CPI(M) today questioned why Prime Minister Narendra Modi keeps invoking Pakistan over issues, after he dared the Congress to "declare" that it is willing to make every Pakistani an Indian citizen.
In a series of tweets, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said: "PM keeps invoking Pakistan. But this is about India and not Pakistan."
"Why this obsession with Pakistan, to try and cast our country into its mould. Introducing religion-based discrimination into citizenship is against the Indian Constitution," Mr Yechury added.
Addressing an election rally in Jharkhand earlier in the day, PM Modi accused the Congress and "its friends" of spreading lies over the controversial Citizenship Act and dared them to declare they would accord Indian nationality to all Pakistanis.
"(PM) Modi should hear his Home Minister (Amit Shah) more often, as he draws a link between the discriminatory Citizenship Act and the proposed all-India NRC," Mr Yechury said, tagging a video of Amit Shah where he is talking about the citizenship law.
"The people of India are seeing through this clearly now," the Left leader said.
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