The Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA, is a law passed by the Indian Parliament in 2019. It aims to amend the country’s citizenship laws, defines illegal immigrants and lays down the rules and prerequisites for applying for Indian citizenship. It allows minorities of six communities, namely Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians, from India’s neighboring countries — Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Bangladesh — who entered India before 31 December 2014 to get citizenship more easily on the grounds of religious persecution.
The introduction of this bill led to mass protests from students, civil society, and the opposition parties as religion for the first time was made a test of Indian citizenship. The most notable was a 100-plus day protest in Shaheen Bagh, a working-class Muslim neighbourhood in the country’s capital, New Delhi with Muslim women at the forefront of this protest.
Four years after the CAA’s initial introduction and passing, the rules were brought into effect in March 2024.
Three decades back also, Arif Mohammed Khan was the victim of congress’ machinations. When Shah Bano judgment issue errupted, he was a central minister and was chosen to speak for the government. He vigorously defended the supreme court judgment. But, Rajiv Gandhi, behind his back brought law in parliament which annulled the judgment in Shah Bano case. As a principled person Arif Mohammed Khan resigned immediately. Three decades later, congress once again targets him. Congress will never learn lessons from history or from its own past. It is doomed to perish and disappear from Indian polity.
A law passed by Parliament of India which represents whole of India becomes unconstitutional, but a vindictive resolution on a matter not pertaining to the state is constitutional. And these guys are saying they want to uphold constitution ?
We are really tired of this tu-tu-mein-mein. If you don’t like something, convince voters to vote for you and undo the act.
What does the Congress & other Opposition Parties want to achieve by passing a resolution against the Governor?
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It is totally a meaningless step that can achieve nothing