Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is on a three-day visit to Bengal, said that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will be implemented after the Kovid epidemic is over.
Amit Shah said, “Trinamool Congress (TMC) is spreading rumors that CAA will not be implemented, but I am telling you that after Corona we will implement CAA.”
He said, “CAA was a reality, CAA is a reality and CAA will be a reality. Nothing has changed.”
Passed by Parliament in December 2019, the CAA allows non-Muslim minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan – Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians – to obtain Indian citizenship to escape persecution in their home countries. Under the Act, people from these communities who came to India before December 31, 2014, would not be treated as illegal immigrants but would be given Indian citizenship.
West Bengal was one of the states that passed a resolution against the CAA.
The Union Minister also targeted Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the violence in Bengal and said that Didi burnt alive nine people in Birbhum.
Shah said, “Mamata didi, you have been elected thrice by the people of Bengal and we thought you will reform yourself but you didn’t. I promise that unless you stop ‘cut money’ and violence, the BJP will fight against it. will continue its fight against you.”
Shah is on a tour of Bengal to boost the morale of the party leaders. On May 6, Amit Shah will attend BSF’s program on the Three Bigha Corridor of Cooch Behar. In the afternoon, the Home Minister will reach Kolkata and hold a meeting with party MLAs and top state BJP leaders.
“After the post-poll violence, the Human Rights Commission said there was no rule of law, only the rule of the ruler. Over 100 murders, 1,829 injured and TMC people involved in 161 cases. BJP workers are not afraid. No one will be able to stop us,” Shah said.
“Mamata Banerjee has made the state financially inactive. BJP’s fight against didi’s cut money, syndicate rule, torture will continue,” he said.