New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah declared on Saturday that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), passed by Parliament in December 2019, will be notified and put into effect before the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
The Home Minister further accused the Congress of backtracking on its promise to implement the CAA. “CAA was a promise of the Congress government. When the country was divided and the minorities were persecuted in those countries, Congress had assured the refugees that they were welcome in Bharat and they will be provided with Indian citizenship,” Amit Shah said at the ET NOW Global Summit 2024.
Emphasizing the purpose of the CAA, Shah clarified that it was designed to grant citizenship and not to revoke anyone’s citizenship. He stated, “Minorities in our country, and especially our Muslim community, are being provoked. CAA cannot snatch away anyone’s citizenship because there is no provision in the Act. CAA is an act to provide citizenship to refugees who were persecuted in Bangladesh and Pakistan.”
Introduced by the Modi government in 2019, the CAA aims to confer Indian citizenship upon persecuted non-Muslim migrants, including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians, who migrated from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and arrived in Bharat before December 31, 2014.
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