Radiance News
Hyderabad, Jan 4:
With the Government of India reportedly going ahead with implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has warned that this will be a disaster.
He termed the law as ‘unconstitutional’ because it was made on the basis of religion.
“The CAA must be read with and understood with NPR-NRC which will lay down the conditions to prove your citizenship. If that happens, it will be a grave injustice, especially to the Muslims, Dalits and the poor of India irrespective of the caste or religion they belong to,” he told media persons.
Owaisi’s comments came amid media reports that the Central government is ready with the CAA rules and is likely to implement them much before the Lok Sabha elections.
Last month, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had stated that no one can stop the implementation of the CAA as it is the law of the land.
Passed in 2019, the CAA is aimed at conferring Indian citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan who entered India till December 31, 2014. This was meant only for migrants belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Jains, Buddhist, Parsi, and Christian communities.
Enactment of the law in early 2020 had triggered massive protests.
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