BJP chief Amit Shah visited several houses in south Delhi, while UP Chief Minister Adityanath walked down to the shop of a Muslim resident in Gorakhpur as the party on Sunday launched a 10-day door-to-door campaign across the country to dispel "misinformation" on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act which has triggered a wave of protests since it was passed in December.
Other top party leaders including Rajnath Singh, J P Nadda and Nitin Gadkari were in different parts of the country where they spoke to people on the benefits of the amended citizenship law and distributed literature on the subject.
Shah visited nine homes and a temple in Lajpat Nagar which has significant population of refugees who had arrived in India after Partition. He was seen urging people to take out their mobile phones to give a missed call to a toll-free number the BJP has launched for the masses to register their support to the law.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched the campaign in their respective states.
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, however, ridiculed the BJP, saying had there be any merit in the law, such a campaign would not have been necessary
"And now for the CAA, party leaders and ministers are forced to go from door to door to convince people. It is a laughable situation," the senior Congress leader said in Mumbai
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