New Delhi: Opposition parties are increasingly claiming that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (China Aviation Association) will be abolished immediately if they come to power, Union Home Minister Amit Shah The announcement on Thursday that the process of granting citizenship under the law would begin this month also defended the “timing” Arvind KejriwalThe reason for the arrest was the Delhi Chief Minister’s repeated non-compliance with the Enforcement Directorate’s regulations (emergency room) subpoena.
“Applications have started coming in. The review is going on as per the rules. I think before the elections, before the final stage, the process of granting citizenship will start,” Shah told News 18 Network.
Earlier, the Congress along with the Left, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) had promised to repeal the CAA, which seeks to provide benefits to Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Jains and Hindus from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Westerners were offered citizenship. Opposition parties say the law is discriminatory because it does not cover Muslims.
The government defended the omission, saying the CAA was intended to help religious minorities from three neighboring Muslim countries and did not provide for revoking anyone’s citizenship.
In an interview with a TV channel, Shah dismissed suggestions that falling poll numbers could hurt the PPP and said outdated electoral rolls and lack of “competition” were behind the turnout in the first two phases lagging behind the poll percentages in the first phase. The main reason is that there are two rounds of voting in 2019. Twelve years later, the electoral roll was revised. The second reason is that there is no competition on the other side, which affects turnout to some extent.
On the timing of the arrests of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Shah stressed that both had refused to respond to summons on multiple occasions. “After multiple summonses, they did not show up. If they had appeared (before the agency) after the first summons, they would have been arrested six months before the election. Many times, summonses were issued but they did not come ,”He said.
“Applications have started coming in. The review is going on as per the rules. I think before the elections, before the final stage, the process of granting citizenship will start,” Shah told News 18 Network.
Earlier, the Congress along with the Left, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) had promised to repeal the CAA, which seeks to provide benefits to Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Jains and Hindus from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Westerners were offered citizenship. Opposition parties say the law is discriminatory because it does not cover Muslims.
The government defended the omission, saying the CAA was intended to help religious minorities from three neighboring Muslim countries and did not provide for revoking anyone’s citizenship.
In an interview with a TV channel, Shah dismissed suggestions that falling poll numbers could hurt the PPP and said outdated electoral rolls and lack of “competition” were behind the turnout in the first two phases lagging behind the poll percentages in the first phase. The main reason is that there are two rounds of voting in 2019. Twelve years later, the electoral roll was revised. The second reason is that there is no competition on the other side, which affects turnout to some extent.
On the timing of the arrests of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Shah stressed that both had refused to respond to summons on multiple occasions. “After multiple summonses, they did not show up. If they had appeared (before the agency) after the first summons, they would have been arrested six months before the election. Many times, summonses were issued but they did not come ,”He said.
