Days after the central authorities notified the Citizenship Amendment Act, Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated that the regulation won’t ever be taken again and the BJP-led authorities won’t ever compromise with it.
In an interview to ANI, Amit Shah stated, “This is our sovereign right to ensure Indian citizenship in our country, we will never compromise on it and CAA will never be taken back.”
Asked in regards to the opposition INDIA bloc, particularly a Congress chief stating that they might repeal the regulation when they may come to energy, the Home Minister stated that even the opposition is conscious it has bleak possibilities of coming to energy.
“Even INDI alliance knows that it will not come into power. CAA has been brought by the BJP party, and the Narendra Modi-led government has brought it. It is impossible to repeal it. We will spread awareness about it in the whole nation so that those who want to repeal it do not get a place,” Shah stated.
The union minister additionally dismissed criticism that the “CAA is unconstitutional” stating that it doesn’t violate the constitutional provisions.
“They always talk about Article 14. They forget that there are two clauses in that Article. This law does not violate Article 14. There is a clear, reasonable classification here. This is a law for those who, due to partition, remained in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh and were facing religious persecution and decided to come to India,” the Union Minister stated.
Replying to the Opposition’s declare of the timing of bringing notification of CAA earlier than the Lok Sabha elections, Amit Shah stated, “First of all I will talk about the timing. All opposition parties including Rahul Gandhi, Mamata or Kejriwal are indulging in jhooth ki rajneeti (politics of lies) so the question of timing does not arise. BJP has made it clear in its 2019 manifesto that it will bring CAA and provide Indian citizenship to refugees (from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan). BJP has a clear agenda and under that promise, the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was passed in both houses of Parliament in 2019. It got delayed due to Covid. BJP had cleared its agenda well before the party got its mandate in the polls.”
“Rules are now a formality. There is no question of timing, political gain or loss. Now, the Opposition wants to consolidate their vote bank by doing appeasement politics. I want to request them that they have been exposed. CAA is the law for the entire country and I have reiterated nearly 41 times in four years that it will become a reality,” he stated.
The Home Minister stated that there’s “no query of political acquire as the primary intention of the BJP is to offer rights and justice to persecuted minorities coming from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
“The opposition had even raised questions on surgical strike and the abrogation of Article 370 and linked it with political gain. So should we not take stern steps against terrorism? We have been saying since 1950 that we will withdraw Article 370” the Home Minister stated.
“I have spoken on CAA at least 41 times on different platforms and spoken on it in detail that the minorities of the country need not be afraid because it has no provision to take back the rights of any citizen. The CAA 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, and through this law, their sufferings can be ended” he added.
The Home Minister was important of opposition leaders like AIMIM’s Asaddudin Owaisi and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for claiming that the CAA was anti-Muslim.
“You cannot see this law in isolation. On August 15, 1947, our country was partitioned. Our country was partitioned into three parts; this is the background. Bharatiya Jan Sangh and BJP were always against the Partition. We never wanted that country to be partitioned based on religion,” he stated.
“So when the country was partitioned on the basis of religion, minorities faced persecution, they were being converted, women in the minority section were being tortured and came to India. They came to our refuge; don’t they have a right to get our citizenship? Even Congress leaders during the partition in their speeches said that those minorities should stay wherever they are due to the widespread bloodshed and they will be welcomed later in our country. Now they started doing vote bank politics and due to appeasement,” Shah added.
The Home Minister stated that it was the ethical obligation of the federal government to make sure the rights of those that had been persecuted.
“The people who were part of Akhand Bharat and who were prosecuted or tortured those people should be given refuge in India and this is our social and Constitutional responsibility. Now if you look closely at the statistics, in Pakistan when the partition happened there were 23 per cent Hindus and Sikhs but now only 3.7 per cent of Hindus and Sikhs are left. where are they? They have not returned here. They were converted, tortured, and insulted they were given second-class status. Where will they go? Will the country will not think, Parliament will not think about them, and the political parties should not think about them?” the Home Minister stated
“In Afghanistan, at the moment there are now only about 500 Hindus…don’t these people have right to live as per their beliefs. When Bharat was one, they were our brothers,” he added.
Slamming Delhi’s Chief Minister for his remarks that CAA will take away jobs meant for India’s youth, and might result in a rise in crime, the Union Minister stated that individuals who will profit from the regulation are already in India.
“If they are so concerned why are they not talking about Bangladeshi infiltrators and Rohingyas because they are doing vote bank politics? Delhi elections are tough for them that’s why they are indulging in vote bank politics” he stated.
Amit Shah additionally questioned West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for alleging that citizenship of minorities could be taken away as a result of CAA.
“I am requesting Mamata ji, that there are several platforms to do politics, but please don’t harm Bengali Hindus coming from Bangaldesh. I challenge Mamata publically to tell one such clause that has the provision of taking away citizenship of any Indian. Her intention is to create differences between Hindus and Muslims to consolidate vote bank. CAA has to be done. If she wants to anything stop infiltration, but she is not cooperating” Amit Shah stated.
On March 11, the Union Home Ministry notified guidelines for the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
The CAA, launched by the Narendra Modi authorities and handed by Parliament in 2019, goals 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 earlier than December 31, 2014.
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