CAA Notification: A day after the Centre announced the implementation of CAA, the Indian Union Muslim League on Tuesday filed a plea before the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) Rules 2024. The petition, in the top court, sought a stay on the continued operation of the impugned provisions of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 and Citizenship Amendment Rules 2024.
The plea contended that while the current Writ Petition is pending, the Act and Rules would create important privileges and confer citizenship to individuals who practise only specific religions, creating a "fait accompli situation".
The CAA law was enacted in 2019, which aims to grant Indian citizenship to Hindus, Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis entering India on or before December 31, 2014, from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. It sparked massive protests across the country. Delhi witnessed the anti-CAA demonstrations for months in 2019 and 2020, with Jamia Millia Islamia and Shaheen Bagh serving as the epicentres of the uproar.
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- On Monday, the Union Home Ministry notified rules for implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act which brought a sharp reaction from the opposition with Congress questioning the time of CAA implementation.
- After the Centre notified the implementation of CAA, security was tightened in many parts of Delhi with paramilitary personnel conducting night patrols and flag marches in the northeastern parts of the city, Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Nagar and other sensitive areas. Earlier today, Delhi Police and RAF held a flag march in Delhi's Welcome area.
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- In the latest development, the MHA has provided a web portal (https:/indiancitizenshiponline.nic.in) on which people persecuted from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh can apply to avail of Indian citizenship.
- Appreciating the Centre's move on CAA, Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij said PM Modi has done a good job by giving Indian citizenship to those who were persecuted based on religion.
- "...Those who could not come to India at the time of partition and were persecuted on the basis of religion in these different countries. People who came to India before 2014 had no rights here, so PM Modi has done a good job by giving them citizenship so that they can also live their lives with dignity and raise their children," Vij said as quoted by ANI.
- Several political leaders including BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad, and Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami hailed the decision taken by the Centre. Meanwhile, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor expressed his mixed thoughts about CAA implementation.
- "That's a very good principle. Those who are fleeing the neighbouring countries, who fear persecution there on any grounds, should be given asylum in our country. And I would have welcomed this law. But the moment you say people of one religion are excluded, what does that mean? You are basically leaving out people who may also desire to become Indian because of persecution... What about people who have come from Pakistan who may have been born Muslim but who have rejected that country and who have been persecuted in that country?..." he told ANI.