The Central government is ready with the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 rules and people will be notified about it much before the Lok Sabha elections, said a senior government functionary on Tuesday. CAA, which was enacted in December 2019 and came into force on January 10, 2020, enables the granting of citizenship to people who migrated to Bharat before December 31, 2014, from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan, belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Christian, Buddhist, and Parsi communities.
Lok Sabha passed the act on December 9, 2019, and two days later in Rajya Sabha. The senior official noted that the Home Ministry is exploring an online procedure to apply, process, and grant citizenship under the 2019 act. Notably, since the rules were not notified until now, the act to grant citizenship could not be implemented.
The enactment of the law sparked large-scale protests from the Muslim communities, while the Opposition parties dubbed the law as “discriminatory” and urged for its rollback. However, the opposers did not pay attention to the fact that the law had been enacted to safeguard the minorities in these nations who might have been targeted based on their religion.
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A few days ago, Home Minister Amit Shah asserted that no one can stop the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act as it is the “law of the land”. In an interview, he stated that the BJP government is committed to bringing the Citizenship Amendment Act. (BYTE: VIDEO 9: 1.44 TO 1.58) Amit Shah, Home Affairs Minister
Minister Shah stated that through this law, the government will bring justice to the brothers and sisters of the Hindu faith and other six religious minorities, who were persecuted in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. He further assured the citizens that CAA would not take away anybody’s citizenship. (BYTE: VIDEO 9: 1.59 TO 2.16) Amit Shah, Home Affairs Minister
He further threw light that there was a “false propaganda” peddled among the minorities, especially Muslims. He assured that nobody’s citizenship, not even Muslim communities’ citizenship would be taken away by CAA. “CAA is not a law to take away citizenship, but to give,” he noted.
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