Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Ok Stalin on Tuesday dismissed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act as ‘divisive and bereft of any use’ and asserted that it’s going to not be carried out within the state.
Hitting out on the BJP regime on the Centre for notifying the foundations for implementing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) ‘in a haste’ when the Lok Sabha polls are not far away, Stalin mentioned the CAA and its guidelines went in opposition to the essential construction of the Constitution.
“There is not going to be any use or benefits due to the CAA, which only paves the way for creating divisions among the Indian people. The stand of the government is that this law is completely unwarranted; it is one that must be repealed.”
Union BJP Government’s divisive agenda has weaponised the Citizenship Act, turning it from a beacon of humanity to a instrument of discrimination based mostly on faith and race by way of the enactment of #CAA. By betraying Muslims and Sri Lankan Tamils, they sowed seeds of division.Despite… pic.twitter.com/mbraX6SW10
— M.Ok.Stalin (@mkstalin) March 11, 2024
Hence, “the Tamil Nadu government will not give any opportunity in any manner to implement the CAA in Tamil Nadu,” he asserted in an official launch.
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First Published: Mar 12 2024 | 2:41 PM IST
