Senior-Congress-leader P Chidambaram slammed the BJP saying with a focus on the National Population Register, CAA and a countrywide NRC, it wants to "somehow implement its Hindu-Rashtra" project. Speaking-at-a-programme in Chennai, organised by a Left-backed outfit, Chidambaram also criticised the IIT-Madras-director over a German-student, Jacob Lindenthal, being asked to leave the country allegedly because he had taken part in a protest against the CAA.