The Prime Minister's election campaign speech in Delhi was "full of untruths, half-truths and misleading statements", CPI(M) general-secretary Sitaram Yechury said, demanding that the government cancel NRC and withdraw the contentious amendments to the citizenship law. Modi, during his speech at the Ramlila Maidan, tried to alley fears of the Muslim-community over the law as protests against it have claimed more than 20-lives nationwide.