NEW DELHI: The controversial citizenship amendment act (CAA) will be implemented before the country goes to the Lok Sabha elections.
This was announced by union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday (February 10).
Amit Shah said that the citizenship amendment act (CAA) will be notified and implemented before the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
The union home minister also called the CAA as an “act of the country”.
Amit Shah stressed that the citizenship amendment act is to provide citizenship and not to “take away anyone’s citizenship”.
“The CAA is an act of the country. It will be notified before the polls. There should be no confusion around it,” Amit Shah said this while speaking at the ET Now-Global Business summit in Delhi.
He added that the minorities, especially the Muslims, are being “misled and unprovoked”.
The act aims to confer Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants – including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians – who migrated from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and entered India till December 31, 2014, due to “religious persecution or fear of religious persecution”.