Utpal Parrikar, son of late Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar, has hailed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB), calling it a step towards correcting the "historical wrong".
Taking to Twitter, he also said that the Bill was a "direct consequence of partition on religious lines".
"#CAB2019 step towards correcting historical wrong," he said in a tweet on Wednesday.
In another tweet posted on Thursday, he said, "Need for #CAB2019 is a direct consequence of partition on religious lines. If congress accepted large territories of the country to become Islamic Republic, It had duty towards protecting minorities living in those lands."
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