No Clarity on Citizenship Amendment Act: Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray

Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray, on Monday, said that Citizenship (Amendment) Act has “ clarity” in it. Shiv Sena boycotted Rajya Sabha voting of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill on Wednesday, last week over contriction of t getting any appropriate answers to  questions raised in lower house. After staging a walkout from Parliament, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said, “Yes, Shiv Sena has boycotted voting”. 

Uddhav Thackeray on CAA 

Shiv Sena chief and Maharashtra CM, Uddhav Thackeray while dressing media at an event said, “ questions we asked in Lok Sabha on Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 were t answered. re is clarity on Citizenship Act”. Thackeray furr said that re is clarity regarding how many people will come to our country and from where y will come. He furr questioned where se people will stay after coming to India. 

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Sanjay Raut on Shiv Sena's walkout from RS 

Speaking to media after walking out of Rajya Sabha, abandoning voting on CAB, Raut said, "We wanted a few answers to our questions. But I and my party thought that if we are t getting any answers properly n re is point in opposing or supporting bill." Furr, speaking about vote bank politics, he said, " vote bank politics should t be played. It is t correct. Do t attempt to create a Hindu-Muslim divide again. Also, re is thing in this Bill for Tamil Hindus of Sri Lanka”. 

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Citizenship (Amendment) Act 

Act seeks to provide citizenship to mirity communities namely Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Banglesh and Pakistan. This will be applicable to members of se communities having arrived in India on or before December 31, 2014. Moreover, y will t be considered as illegal migrants. 

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ditionally, mandatory residence period for naturalised citizenship for se communities would be reduced to 5 years. Several parties in rth East such as All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) have been vehemently opposed to this Bill. To ameliorate ir concerns, Centre has exempted a major part of rth East from ambit of CAA.  opposition contends that Bill discriminates on basis of religion, which might go against Article 14, which guarantees right to equality.  

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