Indian Muslims must welcome CAA…: What All India Muslim Conference president said

Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh:

Hours after the central government notified the Citizenship Amendment Act, All India Muslim Conference president Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi Barelvi said he welcomed the legislation and sought to allay the fears of the Muslim community, saying it was not will affect their citizenship status.

“The Government of India has implemented the CAA law. I welcome this law. This should have been done earlier but better late than never… There is a lot of misunderstanding among Muslims about this law. This law has nothing to do with it earlier At a time when there was no law to provide citizenship to non-Muslims from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, they faced atrocities based on religion…” Maulana told reporters.

“Lakhs of Indian Muslims will not be affected by this law at all… This law will not take away the citizenship of any Muslim… Over the past few years, we have Protests are being seen and it is because some politicians are creating misunderstandings among Muslims… Every Muslim in India should welcome CAA…,” he added.

We welcome the implementation of the CAA law by the Indian government, every Muslim in India should welcome it, Muslims should not be afraid, it gives citizenship and does not take away citizenship, Muslims have nothing to do with it. @PMOIndia@rashtrapatibhvn#BigBreaking#CAA#Breaking Newspic.twitter.com/NLuToI82FM

— Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi Bareilvi (@Shahabuddinbrly) March 11, 2024

In February this year, Union Home Minister Amit Shah made it clear that the CAA was set up to provide citizenship and not to take it away from anyone.

“Minorities in our country, especially our Muslim community, are being provoked. The CAA cannot take away citizenship from anyone as there is no provision in the bill. The CAA is a provision for refugees who are persecuted in Bangladesh and Pakistan Citizenship Bill,” Mr Shah had said.

The Union Home Ministry notified the implementation rules of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on Monday night, days ahead of announcing the schedule for the Lok Sabha elections.

The CAA was proposed by the Narendra Modi government and passed by Parliament in 2019 to provide persecuted non-Muslim immigrants (including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains) from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India Hindus, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians) are offered Indian citizenship. Afghanistan and arrived in India before December 31, 2014.

Citizenship applications must be submitted entirely online, for which a portal is provided.

After the CAA was passed by Parliament in December 2019 and subsequently approved by the President, massive protests broke out across the country. Implementation of the Civil Aviation Authority has been delayed for more than four years and relevant rules need to be formulated.

According to the parliamentary procedure manual, guidelines for any legislation should be framed within six months of receiving the presidential assent, failing which the government should seek an extension from the subordinate legislative committees of the Lok Sabha and the House of Federation.

Since 2020, the Home Office has regularly sought extensions from parliamentary committees to continue developing rules related to the legislation.

More than a hundred people have been killed during protests or as a result of police action after parliament passed the law. Over the past two years, more than 30 district magistrates and home secretaries in nine states have been empowered to indemnify Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Granted Indian Citizenship. Act 1955.

According to the Home Ministry’s Annual Report 2021-22, a total of 1,414 people from non-Muslim minority communities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan were granted Indian citizenship through the Citizenship Act, 1955, between April 1, 2021 and December 31, 2021. Act to register or naturalize.

Under the Citizenship Act 1955, nine Indian states such as Gujarat, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and Maharashtra .

Notably, authorities in Assam and West Bengal, two politically sensitive regions on the issue, have so far not been authorized by these citizenship-granting bodies.

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