Amit Shah Nrc Speech

Janata Dal-United (JD-U) deputy chief and election strategist Prashant Kishor on Wednesday took a shot at Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his speech in Lucknow a day ago, in which the BJP leader bluntly ruled out a rethink on the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that has triggered protests across India.

It was supposed to be the grand launch of the BJP's Delhi campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But the protracted Modi speech at Delhi's Ram Lila Maidan was loaded with dollops of denial about the flawed CAA/NRC which has seen at least 20 people killed in nationwide protests. There was also plenty of the Modi self-pity last on display during a...

Union minister and BJP chief Amit Shah on Tuesday declared in Kolkata that the BJP government would take the National Citizenship Registry across the country and "no matter how much TMC opposes it, the BJP will get it done". In a scathing attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, he said she is keen on keeping infiltrators to expand her voter base.

At a rally in central Kolkata, BJP chief Amit Shah's message and target were clear. "We are here to uproot Mamata Banerjee," he said right at the beginning of his speech that ripped into the Bengal Chief Minister for trying to stop the citizens' list in Assam.

While Amit Shah alluded in his intervention in parliament to Rajiv Gandhi having announced the accord during his Independence Day address to the nation next day from the ramparts of the Red Fort, he does not seem to have read the speech because Rajiv Gandhi says the accord was signed "yesterday" (14 August), then quickly corrects himself to say it ...

Janata Dal-United (JD-U) deputy chief and election strategist Prashant Kishor on Wednesday took a shot at Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his speech in Lucknow a day ago, in which the BJP leader bluntly ruled out a rethink on the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that has triggered protests across India.

It was supposed to be the grand launch of the BJP's Delhi campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But the protracted Modi speech at Delhi's Ram Lila Maidan was loaded with dollops of denial about the flawed CAA/NRC which has seen at least 20 people killed in nationwide protests. There was also plenty of the Modi self-pity last on display during a...

Union minister and BJP chief Amit Shah on Tuesday declared in Kolkata that the BJP government would take the National Citizenship Registry across the country and "no matter how much TMC opposes it, the BJP will get it done". In a scathing attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, he said she is keen on keeping infiltrators to expand her voter base.

At a rally in central Kolkata, BJP chief Amit Shah's message and target were clear. "We are here to uproot Mamata Banerjee," he said right at the beginning of his speech that ripped into the Bengal Chief Minister for trying to stop the citizens' list in Assam.

While Amit Shah alluded in his intervention in parliament to Rajiv Gandhi having announced the accord during his Independence Day address to the nation next day from the ramparts of the Red Fort, he does not seem to have read the speech because Rajiv Gandhi says the accord was signed "yesterday" (14 August), then quickly corrects himself to say it ...