Didi, why are you scared: PM Narendra Modi mocks Mamata Banerjee

''Mamata didi went from Kolkata to UN. Few years back, she was pleading before Parliament that infiltrators coming from Bangladesh should be stopped. Didi what has happened to you? Why did you change? Why are you spreading rumours? '' Modi said, addressing a mega rally at Ramlila Maidan here.
  
''Elections come and go. Why are you scared?,'' he said.

The Prime Minister also targetted Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and said Gehlot himself favoured citizenship for persecuted Hindus from Pakistan but now has changed his stance.

He said former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh also favoured the CAA in 2003. He said in the past,  Left parties also spoke against infiltrators but are now singing different tunes.

He said, ''Who understands the pain of refugees better than people of Delhi? CAA is not taking away anyone's citizenship. It, in fact, provides citizenship to the minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who fled these countries fearing persecution because of their religion.''

Attacking the principal opposition party Congress, he said the grand old party was scared that ''Modi was being accepted and felicitated'' in Muslim countries.

Modi maintained that there is a very simple difference between refugees and infiltrators, adding that an infiltrator never reveals his identity and a refugee never hides his identity. ''Many of these refugees are coming out and speaking openly. Why don't the infiltrators speak the truth? They are scared that their reality will come out,'' he said.

Modi particularly regretted that the 100-year-old Congress leadership is not calling for peace and tranquillity.

He went on to attack the opposition parties for pursuing their politics with 'remote control'.
  
"CAA has not beeb enacted by Modi, neither it is an overnight decision. It is in line with what Mahatma Gandhi had said. Those who got benefits of Gandhiji's surname should realise that Gandhiji himself had said that Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan should be always welcomed in India," he said.

"CAA is not for taking away citizenship right, but give the rights to the people who have been forced to leave their homes," he pointed out.