Congressleader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday opposed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019,calling it 'Hindutva version of Pakistan' and contending that it violates thebasic idea of India.

The Bill willmark the definitive victory of Mohammed Ali Jinnah's thinking over that ofMahatma Gandhi's, Tharoor said, asserting that the exercise of grantingcitizenship on the basis of religion will reduce India to a 'Hindutva versionof Pakistan'.

"It is ashameless performance by a government which as recently as last year, refusedto entertain any discussion on developing a National Asylum policy, which I hadproposed in a Private Members Bill and shared personally with the then homeminister and his home secretary," Tharoor said.