Home Secretary Amit Shah was in West Bengal for two days (PTI)
Calcutta:
Home Secretary Amit Shah during his visit to West Bengal today said the Citizenship (Amendment) Act will be implemented across the country once the coronavirus pandemic is firmly under control and will end.
Mr Shah was on a two-day tour of West Bengal, where Assembly elections will be held early next year. The BJP seeks to overthrow Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and defeat her Trinamool Congress party by deploying its “development” program and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s outright assault on the opposition.
“The citizenship law will be implemented and the refugees will get citizenship. It depends on the coronavirus pandemic. But it will be done. The law is in place,” Shah said today as he spoke. was preparing to leave the state at the end of her two day visit.
The Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA, for the first time, makes religion the criterion for Indian citizenship. The government says it will help non-Muslim refugees from three neighboring Muslim-dominated countries if they have fled to India due to religious persecution. Critics say the law discriminates against Muslims and violates the secular principles of the Constitution.
Mr Shah in January this year – the CAA was passed by parliament in December last year – accused the opposition of lying in its criticism of the controversial law, which had sparked deadly protests across the board. the country before they collapsed due to the lockdown made necessary by the COVID-19 pandemic in late March.
Mr. Shah argued that the law is only intended to help those who have been victims of religious persecution in neighboring countries. “The BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party), SP (Sawajwadi Party), Communists, Congress and Mamata Didi are against the CAA because they say minorities will lose their citizenship. Why are they lying? To take away the citizenship of whoever it is, ”Mr. Shah said at a rally in Bhubaneswar in January.
In preparation for the Assembly elections in West Bengal, Mr. Shah said he could “feel massive public anger” against the government headed by Ms. Banerjee. “I have been in West Bengal since last night and can feel the massive public anger against the government of Mamata Banerjee. On the other side, I can sense the hope among the people that a change cannot be brought about in it. State only under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ”Shah told reporters.
