When asked if the international perception on CAA was due to the government’s inability to explain itself, Jaishankar pointed fingers at the media and said: “There are sections of the world outside the media. I engage governments. I was in Brussels, I had 27 foreign ministers in a room to whom I was talking. Point we make on CAA is that it can't be anybody's case that a Government and Parliament doesn't have the right to set terms of citizenship.”

India has tried to reduce the large number of stateless people we have in this country, he said: