Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will be implemented before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While speaking at the Global Business summit, Shah said CAA is an Act of the country, it will be notified before the Lok Sabha elections. Asserting that, Shah said there should be no confusion around it. In December 2019, the act was passed by the Parliament, and following that, a significant protest erupted in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shah further said that CAA was a promise of the Congress government. Congress, when the country was divided and minorities were oppressed there, the then government assured the refugees that they were welcome in India and would be provided with Indian citizenship but now they are backtracking, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shah explained that the CAA does not take away citizenship, instead, it provides citizenship to refugees who were persecuted in Bangladesh and Pakistan. He also said that Indian minorities, especially the Muslim community, are being provoked. CAA cannot snatch away anyone\u2019s citizenship since there is no provision in the Act, he asserted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The CAA, introduced in 2019 by the Modi government, seeks to provide Indian citizenship to the persecuted minorities in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan who have arrived in India before December 31, 2014. The Act only include non-Muslim migrants such as Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians and Parsis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In August 2022, Shah said that the Centre will implement the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) after the third dose of the vaccination drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Parliament passed this legislation in December 2019, amid strong criticism from the Opposition, which called it discriminatory. There were widespread protests in different parts of the country and even riots took place in Delhi in early 2020 in the wake of these protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to several reports, the decision to implement the Act will benefit the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections. \u00a0The party wants the support of the Matuas community in the election. The Matuas, a scheduled caste community, have a population of about 50 million in the Bengal region, of which around 3 million are in West Bengal alone, while 15 million are listed as voters.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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