Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said the resolutions against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, passed by several State Assemblies recently, were a “political statement” through which they had conveyed their apprehensions about the Centre’s intent behind linking nationality with religion. “The States want the Union government to know of their unhappiness,” he said. The idea of mentioning dubious citizenship against names in the proposed NRC is purely the BJP’s creation... It is rightly being opposed,” Mr. Tharoor, a former Union Minister, said. “A choice between Jinnah’s idea of the nation and Mahatma Gandhi’s idea is still available to us.

Source: The Hindu January 26, 2020 20:03 UTC