“After seeking nine extensions for the notification of the rules, the timing right before the elections is evidently designed to polarise the elections, especially in West Bengal and Assam,” the Congress chief stated.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday alleged that the timing of notifying the rules for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act is “BJP’s desperate attempt at divisive politics” simply forward of the approaching Lok Sabha elections. “CAA rules notified today just before elections is BJP’s desperate attempt at divisive politics,” Kharge stated in a put up on X.
He additional stated {that a} delegation led by Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) President, Sjt Lurinjyoti Gogoi met him together with a memorandum highlighting that the “Citizenship Amendment Act is discriminatory in nature”.Â
A delegation led by our ally Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) President, Sjt. Lurinjyoti Gogoi met me together with a memorandum underlining necessary points regarding the folks of Assam. It significantly highlighted that the #CAA i.e. Citizenship Amendment Act is discriminatory in nature and goes in opposition to the fundamental rules and spirit of the Indian Constitution,” Kharge said.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh also alleged that the announcement is yet another attempt to “handle the headlines” after the Supreme Court’s strictures on the electoral bonds issue. Ramesh said it has taken four years and three months for the Narendra Modi government to notify the rules for the law cleared by Parliament in December 2019.
“After searching for 9 extensions for the notification of the rules, the timing proper earlier than the elections is evidently designed to polarise the elections, particularly in West Bengal and Assam,” the Congress leader said.Â
“The prime minister claims that his authorities works in a business-like and time-bound method. The time taken to inform the rules for the CAA is yet one more demonstration of the Prime Minister’s blatant lies,” he said in a post on X.
Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal also alleged that this is an attempt by the BJP to divert the attention. “…Why this delay? If the federal government had some sincerity on this problem, they might have given this order 4 years in the past…This is being achieved earlier than the announcement of the elections to divert the eye…” he said.
Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge also hit out at the BJP and said that the party is doing ‘unconstitutional things’.Â
“The notification of CAA is simply establishing the truth that they’re doing unconstitutional issues. This is already been mentioned broadly within the final couple of years and now simply through the elections, if they will carry this up, it is vitally evident that they only wish to follow divisive politics and so they can not win on a improvement platform…” he said.
Aam Adami Party leader and Delhi Minister Atishi said that the announcement by the BJP shows that ‘it has not done any work in the last 10 years’. “Just just a few days earlier than the Lok Sabha elections, CAA is being introduced. What does this present? This exhibits that the Modi authorities is aware of that they have not achieved any work within the final 10 years…” she said.
However, several leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the central government on Monday notified the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) across the country. Rajasthan Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore, hailing the government said, “The CAA legislation was handed about three years in the past, the wait was for its rules and laws to be made. Now it has been made… I congratulate Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Home Minister for implementing CAA.”
Goa CM Dr Pramod Sawant said, “…I welcome the CAA notification…I thank PM Modi and the Government of India…” Chhattisgarh Speaker Raman Singh said, “…CAA was in dialogue for a very long time…I wish to congratulate PM Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah…CAA has been introduced to present citizenship and never take it away…”
The Centre on Monday notified the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rules, days earlier than the announcement of the schedule for the Lok Sabha elections and the enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct.Â
The Ministry of Home Affairs has already created a portal for the candidates’ comfort, with the complete course of being achieved on-line. The Act, which was handed in 2019, seeks to fast-track Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians–except Muslims–who migrated to India owing to spiritual persecution in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. The candidates are required to declare the 12 months that they entered India with out journey paperwork.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by DNA employees and is revealed from ANI)
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