After Union Residence Minister Amit Shah introduced that the Citizenship Modification Act shall be carried out earlier than the Lok Sabha polls, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi mentioned on Sunday that the legislation is flawed and in opposition to the essence of India and is solely based mostly on faith.
“That is the flawed legislation. It’s in opposition to the essence of India and is shaped purely based mostly on faith. CAA can’t be seen alone. It needs to be seen with NPR-NRC. These Hindus and Sikhs residing in Pakistan and Afghanistan can come right here; now we have by no means opposed them. A protracted-term visa permits them to develop into Indian residents by means of a course of. It goals to harass Muslims, Dalits and the poor. In the course of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) authorities, we additionally received a decision handed within the meeting that the federal government will conduct a census however NRC-NPR is not going to be allowed right here,” he mentioned.
“AIMIM has at all times been in opposition to CAA and can proceed to oppose it,” Owaisi added.
In the meantime, Union Residence Minister Amit Shah mentioned on Saturday that the Citizenship Modification Act, which was handed by Parliament in December 2019, shall be notified and carried out earlier than the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
CAA will certainly be notified: Shah
“CAA is an act of the nation; it’s going to undoubtedly be notified. It is going to be notified earlier than the polls. CAA shall be carried out by the polls, and there must be no confusion round it,” Shah mentioned, talking on the ET Now-World Enterprise summit right here within the nationwide capital.
“CAA was a promise of the Congress authorities. When the nation was divided and the minorities had been persecuted in these international locations, Congress assured the refugees that they had been welcome in India and that they might be supplied with Indian citizenship. Now they’re backtracking,” Shah mentioned.
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 elements of the nation.
