Letter to BS: PM should desist from distorting facts for political gains

By omitting the words "irrespective of religion", the Prime Minister was being selective

It was interesting to watch Prime Minister Narendra Modi falling back on the first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, as many as 23 times in the Lok Sabha last week in an attempt to defend the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. Of course, it was not without a tinge of his usual sarcasms by referring to Nehru as a “big secular person”, “great thinker”, “big visionary” and so on. Latching on to the word “minorities” in the 1950 pact between Nehru and his then Pakistani counterpart Liaquat Ali Khan for the protection of minorities in their respective countries, Modi, looking towards the Congress