Highlights:
- Citizenship Amendment Act will be implemented in Bengal once the Covid pandemic blows over.
- Allows non-Muslim minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to acquire Indian citizenship.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the Citizenship Amendment Act will be implemented in Bengal once the Covid pandemic blows over.
‘I am telling you that after corona we will implement the Act. CAA was a reality, is a reality and will remain one. Nothing has changed,” Amit shah said.
Benefits of CAA
Citizenship Amendment Act(CAA) was passed by Parliament in 2019, which allows non-Muslim minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan — Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian — to acquire Indian citizenship in order to escape persecution in their native countries. Under the Act, people from these communities who came to India before December 31, 2014, will not be treated as illegal immigrants but given Indian citizenship.
Quoting National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Shah said that the NHRC, in its report, has claimed that in Bengal the ‘law’ of ruler prevails.
