Sonia helms Cong core group meet on CAA protests

December 19, 2019 17:30

A meeting of the Congress core group began today at the party's interim president, Sonia Gandhi's residence, in New Delhi, over the unrest across the country on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.

Senior Congress leaders including Ahmed Patel, Jyotiraditya Scindia, RPN Singh and Deepender Singh Hooda were present in the meeting.

"There is pain among people after a bill against Constitution was passed in Parliament," Scindia told ANI ahead of the meeting.

Protests erupted across the country over the amended Citizenship Act, which seeks to grant citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists and Christians fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and came to India on or before December 31, 2014. -- ANI

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