BREAKING | No One Can Stop, CAA New Rules Will Be Implemented Ahead Of Elections: Amit Shah

New Delhi: While speaking at Republic Summit 2024, Union Home Minister Amit Shah me a big announcement and said that rules for Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019 will be notified before forthcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024. “CAA will be rolled out before Lok Sabha elections. This is law of Nation and nobody can stop it”, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah while talking to Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami. 

Under CAA brought in by Narendra Modi government, Indian nationality will be granted to persecuted non-Muslim migrants — Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians — from Banglesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan who h come to India till December 31, 2014.

re were massive protests in some parts of country after CAA was passed by Parliament in December 2019 and received presidential assent subsequently. he promise of implementing controversial CAA was a major poll plank of BJP in last Lok Sabha.

In last two years, more than 30 district magistrates and home secretaries of nine states have been given powers to grant Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians coming from Afghanistan, Banglesh and Pakistan under Citizenship Act of 1955.

According to annual report of Ministry of Home Affairs for 2021-22, from April 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021, a total of 1,414 foreigners belonging to se non-Muslim minority communities from Pakistan, Banglesh and Afghanistan were given Indian citizenship by registration or naturalization under Citizenship Act, 1955.

nine states where Indian citizenship by registration or naturalization is given under Citizenship Act of 1955 to non-Muslim minorities from Pakistan, Banglesh and Afghanistan are Gujarat, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Punjab, Mhya Presh, Uttar Presh, Delhi and Maharashtra.