Daijiworld Media Network - Jaipur (SHP)

Jaipur, Dec 23: Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to God for enabling Indian citizenship for persecuted minorities. Chouhan's statement has come in at a time when the nation is engulfed in violence over CAA.

Commending the PM's move, Chouhan on Friday said, "Narendra Modi has emerged as a God for those who were persecuted and living in hell."

"Bhagwan ne jeewan diya, maa ne janam diya, lekin Narendra Modi Ji ne fir se Zindagi di hai (God gave life, mother gave birth but Narendra Modiji gave them a new life)," he said addressing a gathering in Jaipur while favouring the Citizenship Amendment Act.

On Sunday at a rally in New Delhi, PM Modi had appealed to the people to not indulge in violence and stressed that the new law has no impact whatsoever on the Indian Muslims.

Defending the controversial law, PM Modi had said at a Delhi rally that it is about giving rights to persecuted minorities from neighbouring countries and is not about snatching rights.

On the National Register of Citizens, PM Modi had sought to allay apprehensions, especially among Muslims, saying his government never discussed it since coming to power for the first time in 2014. "Since my government first came to power in 2014, I want to tell 130 crore countrymen, there has never been a discussion on this NRC," PM Modi had said, as he noted that it was done only in Assam due to a Supreme Court order.