CAA will be implemented before LS polls: Shivraj Singh Chouhan

13 Feb 2024 Evaluate

Senior BJP leader and the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today expressed confidence that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) would be implemented before the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Shivraj Singh Chouhan asserted that the CAA aimed at granting citizenship rather than revoking it, contrary to claims by some opposition parties. Chauhan said. ‘I am confident that CAA will be implemented before the Lok Sabha polls. This act is very much needed. It has been clarified time and again that this law is not against anyone but about giving citizenship to those brothers and sisters of the neighbouring countries who fled the countries for religious persecution’. His assertion comes amidst earlier reports this month suggesting that the rules for the legislation would be notified ‘much before’ the announcement of the Lok Sabha elections. 

Chouhan also claimed that BJP will meet the target of securing 35 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal this time. Slamming the state government in Bengal over the recent unrest at Sandeshkhali, Chouhan said the ‘revelations at Sandeshkhali are spine chilling and the state government allowed such things to happen. He also criticized Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. He said that I do not understand why Congress is silent on this issue. Mocking the Congress over the opposition bloc INDIA falling apart after two of its allies switched sides to NDA, Chouhan said, and ‘INDIA bloc was a combination of parties without any ideological convocation, so this was bound to happen’.

The BJP-led central government passed the CAA in Parliament in 2019. Its objective is to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslims i.e. Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians who came to India after 31 December 2014 from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. 



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