New Delhi, July 15, 2022 (PPI-OT):The joint Opposition candidate for the Presidential election in India, Yashwant Sinha has announced that if he is elected, he will ensure that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is not implemented. Sinha was interacting with opposition lawmakers of Assam. “If I am in Rashtrapati Bhavan, I will ensure that CAA is not implemented,” he said.
Sinha claimed that the BJP-led government has not been able to implement the CAA so far as it was “foolishly drafted” in a hurry. “Earlier, the government gave the excuse of COVID, but even now they have not been able to implement it because it is an Act foolishly drafted in a hurry,” he said.
Sinha, a former Indian minister, said he was compelled to leave the BJP in 2018 after realising that the present leadership has taken “a completely wrong” path. Opposition parties, Muslims across India and north-eastern states and many international legal experts, including the United Nations, have been saying India’s new citizenship law is discriminatory.
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) fast-tracks nationality for non-Muslim minorities from neighbouring countries but excludes Muslims – a step compared with former US President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban.
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