"No CM can refuse it, only Centre makes laws on citizenship": Amit Shah slams Mamata, Stalin for opposing CAA implementation
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New Delhi, Mar 13: In a recent podcast with ANI, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has massively explained about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) and countered all the accusations made by the Opposition regarding the Act. He asserted that the CAA does not violate any provision of the constitution and only the central government is empowered to enact laws concerning citizenship and implement them and not the states.
These remarks came after some Chief Ministers of non-BJP ruled states who have been opposing the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act and claiming that they would not allow its implementation in their state.
Initially speaking about the Centre's decision to implement the CAA, he said,
“This is our sovereign right to ensure Indian citizenship in our country, we will never compromise on it and CAA will never be taken back."
Further, he also slammed Chief Ministers like Mamata Banerjee, MK Stalin and Pinarayi Vijayan for threatening to not implement the CAA.
"Do you have the right that you can refuse its implementation? They also understand that they do not have the rights. In our Constitution, the right to make laws concerning citizenship has been given only to Parliament. This is a Central subject, not the state's, both the law and its implementation," Amit Shah said.
As per the Constitution, only the Parliament has the authority to make laws related to citizenship. It does not fall on the State List. States have no role to play in this entire process.
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He asserted that all political parties would come on board and cooperate after the Lok Sabha election.
“Article 11 of our Constitution gives all the powers to make rules regarding citizenship to the Parliament. I think everyone will cooperate after the elections. They are spreading misinformation for appeasement politics," he said.
The Home Minister said that it was the moral duty of the government to ensure the rights of those who were persecuted.
“The people who were part of Akhand Bharat and who were prosecuted or tortured those people should be given refuge in India and this is our social and Constitutional responsibility. Now if you look closely at the statistics, in Pakistan when the partition happened there were 23 per cent Hindus and Sikhs but now only 3.7 per cent of Hindus and Sikhs are left. where are they? They have not returned here. They were converted, tortured, and insulted they were given second-class status. Where will they go? Will the country will not think, Parliament will not think about them, and the political parties should not think about them?" the Home Minister said.
It is pertinent to mention that the Union Home Ministry notified rules for the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
The CAA, introduced by the Narendra Modi government and passed by Parliament in 2019, aims to confer Indian citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim migrants--including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians--who migrated from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and arrived in India before December 31, 2014.