CAA Will Never Be Taken Back, No

Compromise': Amit Shah's Stern

Message To Opposition
Days after the Narendra Modi-led government implemented the Citizenship
Amendment Act (CAA), Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the law will never
be taken back, adding that the BJP-led Centre will never compromise with it.
Shah, in an interview to news agency ANI, said, “This is our sovereign right to ensure
Indian citizenship in our country, we will never compromise on it and CAA will never
be taken back.”
On the flak received over the law from the opposition, INDIA bloc, especially when a
Congress leader said that the law would be repealed if the party comes to power, the
Home Minister said even the opposition is aware that it has barely any chance to come
back to power.

“Even INDI alliance knows that it will not come into power. CAA has been brought
by the BJP party, and the Narendra Modi-led government has brought it. It is
impossible to repeal it. We will spread awareness about it in the whole nation so that
those who want to repeal it do not get a place,” Shah noted.

He also dismissed any condemnation which said that the citizenship law is
“unconstitutional” citing that it does not violate the constitutional provisions.

He said that those who criticise, always talk about Article 14, but they tend to forget
the two clauses that it encompasses. “This law does not violate Article 14. There is a
clear, reasonable, classification here. This is a law for those who — due to partition —
remained in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh and were facing religious
persecution and decided to come to India,” the Union Minister said.

Shah also responded to the Opposition’s jibe at the timing of notifying the CAA rules,
which is before the Lok Sabha elections, and said, “First of all I will talk about the
timing. All opposition parties including Rahul Gandhi, Mamata or Kejriwal are
indulging in jhooth ki rajneeti (politics of lies) so the question of timing does not
arise.”
He pointed that the BJP had made it clear in its 2019 manifesto that it will bring CAA
and provide Indian citizenship to the persecuted refugees. He said that the party holds
a “clear agenda” and under that very promise, the CAA bill was passed in both the
Houses of the Parliament in 2019.

“It got delayed due to Covid. The BJP had cleared its agenda well before the party got
its mandate in the polls,” Shah added.