The Ministry of Home Affairs is likely to notify the rules for the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). This follows Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement a month ago that the government would implement the CAA before this year’s Lok Sabha elections.
The law makes getting Indian citizenship easier for Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Christian and Parsi refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. This aims to give citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from these countries who came to India before December 31, 2014. After Parliament passed the law in 2019, protests broke out in several parts of the country.
Last month, Amit Shah stated that no one can stop the CAA Rules.
This will be implemented before the elections…this is the law of the country, no one can stop it, this is set in stone, this is the reality.
Amit Shah
According to PTI, Shah, while speaking at the ET Now-Global Business Summit in Delhi in February, asserted that CAA was an act of the country and assured the minorities that the law would not snatch away anyone’s citizenship.
The CAA is an act of the country…It will be notified before the polls. There should be no confusion around it. Minorities in our country, and especially our Muslim community, are being provoked…The CAA cannot snatch away anyone’s citizenship because there is no provision in the Act. The CAA is an act to provide citizenship to refugees who were persecuted in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Amit Shah
“At the same time, Amit Shah said that the Congress government had promised the law. When the country was divided, minorities had to suffer. “Congress assured the refugees that India welcomed them and would provide them with Indian citizenship, but now they are backing out.
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