New Delhi : The Citizenship Amendment Act, which was approved by the Parliament in December 2019, will be announced and put into effect prior to the next Lok Sabha elections, according to Union Home Minister Amit Shah‘s statement on Saturday. “The CAA is a national act that will undoubtedly be informed. It will receive notice prior to the polls. Speaking at the ET Now-Global Business conference held in the nation’s capital, Shah stated that the polls will implement CAA and that there should be no confusion regarding it.
“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 India and they will be provided with Indian citizenship. Now they are backtracking,” Shah said. He said in categorical terms that CAA was brought in to provide citizenship and not to take away anyone’s citizenship.
“Minorities in our country, and specially 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.” The CAA, introduced by the Narendra Modi government, aims to confer Indian citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim migrants, including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians, who migrated from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and arrived in India before December 31, 2014.
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Significant protests broke out across the nation after the CAA was approved by Parliament in December 2019 and was subsequently ratified by the president. The home minister stated that corruption is the main issue in this election, which is related to the impending Lok Sabha polls. “The issue in this election is not NDA vs. I.N.D.I.A. This concerns zero tolerance for corruption versus corrupt governance. The Union Home Minister stated, “This election is about those who want to secure national security vs. those who, in the name of foreign policy, endanger national security.”
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