Union Residence Minister Amit Shah in the present day made the Narendra Modi authorities’s intention clear that it is dedicated to implementing the Citizenship Modification Act (CAA) earlier than the Lok Sabha elections. “CAA is an Act of the nation, it’s going to undoubtedly be notified. It will likely be notified earlier than the polls. CAA shall be carried out by the polls, and there ought to be no confusion round it,” Shah mentioned throughout a program in New Delhi.
The Delhi Police has already tightened vigilance in areas the place CAA protests happened. Talking on the difficulty, Residence Minister Shah mentioned that CAA was first promised by the Congress authorities. “When the nation was divided and the minorities have been persecuted in these nations, Congress had assured the refugees that they have been welcome in India and they are going to be supplied with Indian citizenship. Now they’re backtracking,” Shah mentioned.
He mentioned that CAA was introduced in to supply citizenship and never to remove anybody’s citizenship. “Minorities in our nation, and specifically our Muslim group, are being provoked. CAA can’t snatch away anybody’s citizenship as a result of there is no such thing as a provision within the Act. CAA is an act to supply citizenship to refugees who have been persecuted in Bangladesh and Pakistan,” mentioned Shah.
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The CAA, launched by the Narendra Modi authorities, goals to confer Indian citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim migrants, together with Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians, who migrated from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and arrived in India earlier than December 31, 2014.
Following the passage of the CAA by Parliament in December 2019 and its subsequent presidential assent, vital protests erupted in varied components of the nation.
