Bharatiya Janata Party president Jagat Prakash Nadda has tried to get the support of Christian community to the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

The former student of St Xavier’s School in Patna on January 7 met with around 15 pastors of various Christian denominations in the national capital.

BJP vice president Dushyant Gautam and Tom Vadakkan, a Christian from Kerala who joined the pro-Hindu party in 2018, were present at the meeting in Nadda’s Motilal Nehru Marg residence.

The Christian delegates reportedly expressed their displeasure with the Act.

Nadda spoke about his time at the St Xavier’s and reminisced about his time with the Jesuit priests who manage the school. Then, he said the CAA was only to ensure that citizenship is granted to persecuted people from across the border.

He also said he wanted to clarify and change the misinformation spreading on the Act and that he wanted to ensure the Christian priests understood it. BJP had also considered Christian persecution in these countries and that is why the community was also included, Nadda added.