Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked party MPs to launch a campaign and keep repeating the achievements of the government, focusing particularly on the past six months that have seen the abrogation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, resolution of the Ayodhya dispute and the latest Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.

Addressing the MPs at the closed-door weekly parliamentary party meeting, Modi said the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill would be written in “golden letters” and it would bestow the long due respect by giving citizenship to the persecuted minorities from three neighbouring countries — Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

The MPs were asked to give a standing ovation for the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, seen to be an effort to shower praise on home minister Amit Shah, who piloted the bill.

Modi said the past five-and-a-half years have seen historic achievements and asked the MPs to launch a countrywide campaign to enlighten the people what the government had done. He said that one-off campaigns are not enough and stressed the need to hold-up the achievements repeatedly before the people.

“Modiji told us that we have to go out and repeat the achievements of the government,” a MP present at the meeting said.

“Bar, bar kahna hoga, ekbar bol diya usse nahin hoga (You have to tell repeatedly, just doing so once will not work),” the MP quoted Modi having said.

The stress of Modi’s speech was on the three ideological big-bang achievements of the government in the last six months — abrogation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, resolution of the Ayodhya dispute and the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.

Modi told the MPs there was a concerted effort to spread disinformation about the bill and said it was their duty to bust the myths.

“This (CAB) bill is as historic as the one that abrogated Article 370,” he said, adding that they should be proud of being part of the process.

He asked the MPs to organise meetings with people who have been forced to flee and live in India because of religious persecution and gather their stories and find out how the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill would change their lives.

“The relief and joy that the CAB has brought is immeasurable. Meet and listen to the pain of those who will be benefited,” he told the MPs.

There was a second standing ovation at the meeting for the party’s performance in the Karnataka by-elections and to give credit to chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa for the performance.

Modi praised Yediyurappa and termed the bypoll victory significant as the BJP had won in regions where the party had never been strong.