NEW DELHI: BJP President JP Nadda has said that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will be implemented “very soon.”
“The CAA will be implemented very soon. It was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” Nadda said at a rally in Siliguri, West Bengal.
The BJP president further said that the party is committed to the implementation of the CAA and that “everyone will get their benefit.”
Nadda is visiting Siliguri to take stock of the party’s organizational affairs ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections in 2021.
Nadda also confronted the TMC leader and West Bengal Prime Minister Mamata Banerjee, saying that the TMC government is “interested in dividing and winning.”
“Unlike TMC, BJP works for everyone’s development,” said Nadda.
The Interior Ministry had told a permanent parliamentary committee in early August that it would need three more months to frame the rules of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
Despite the problem of notification after approval by parliament, the implementation of the CAA has been hampered by the absence of rules.
The law, passed by Parliament last year amid nationwide protests against it, seeks to confer citizenship, granting citizenship to Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Parsis, but not Muslims, from Afghanistan, Pakistan. and Bangladesh who had come to India earlier. December 31, 2014. The legislation applies to those who were “forced or compelled to seek refuge in India due to persecution on the grounds of religion”.
“The CAA will be implemented very soon. It was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” Nadda said at a rally in Siliguri, West Bengal.
The BJP president further said that the party is committed to the implementation of the CAA and that “everyone will get their benefit.”
Nadda is visiting Siliguri to take stock of the party’s organizational affairs ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections in 2021.
Nadda also confronted the TMC leader and West Bengal Prime Minister Mamata Banerjee, saying that the TMC government is “interested in dividing and winning.”
“Unlike TMC, BJP works for everyone’s development,” said Nadda.
The Interior Ministry had told a permanent parliamentary committee in early August that it would need three more months to frame the rules of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
Despite the problem of notification after approval by parliament, the implementation of the CAA has been hampered by the absence of rules.
The law, passed by Parliament last year amid nationwide protests against it, seeks to confer citizenship, granting citizenship to Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Parsis, but not Muslims, from Afghanistan, Pakistan. and Bangladesh who had come to India earlier. December 31, 2014. The legislation applies to those who were “forced or compelled to seek refuge in India due to persecution on the grounds of religion”.
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