Since 2019, more than two hundred petitions have been submitted before the highest court, contesting different sections of the Citizenship Amendment Act.On Friday, the Supreme Court decided to consider arguments for a stay of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 until March 19.The subject was brought up by senior lawyer Kapil Sibal before Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, who stated that the case will be scheduled for next week.
Many CAA provisions have been contested in a flurry of more than two hundred related petitions that have been filed with the highest court since 2019. The law intends to expedite the process of granting citizenship to non-Muslim refugees who arrived in India on or before December 31, 2014, due to religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.
The Union administration published the CAA’s regulations on Monday, despite the fact that the Parliament enacted the law in December 2019.Opposition leaders criticized the Act’s announcement, arguing that the regulations were “unconstitutional,” “discriminatory,” and against the “secular principle of citizenship” that the Constitution upholds.
Additionally, opponents of the CAA said that the law violates the secular values contained in the Indian Constitution by excluding Muslims from its jurisdiction and tying citizenship to religious identity.On the other hand, the Center has insisted that no national will lose their citizenship and that the CAA is about granting citizenship.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah declared on Thursday that the BJP-led government will never compromise on the CAA and that it will never be retracted in an interview with news agency ANI.
In an interview with ANI, the top BJP leader declared, “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.” “There is no other job for the opposition. They have a track record of acting one way while saying another. But Prime Minister Modi’s and the BJP’s histories are distinct. What the PM Modi or the BJP say is indelible. Modi has fulfilled all of his promises.”
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