Published 10:10 IST, January 20th 2020
Hooda, after Sibal joins the list of Cong leaders miffed with states' anti-CAA resolution
After Kapil Sibal, yet another senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, on Sunday, expressed his displeasure at several states passing anti-CAA resolutions
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After Kapil Sibal, yet ar senior Congress leer and former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, on Sunday, expressed his displeasure at several states passing resolutions against amended Citizenship Act (CAA). He said that once a law is passed, any state can't and should t say anything about it, ding that it should be legally examined. Haryana is currently ruled by BJP-JJP coalition after party reached halfway mark of 35 seats in Assembly elections.
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Hooda: 'States can't block CAA'
Sibal, Singhvi and Khurshid question states' resolution
Agreeing with SC peer Kapil Sibal, Senior party leer Salman Khurshid too that states cant do much about it until Supreme Court intervenes in and declares it "unconstitutional" while reaffirming that Congress still opposed CAA. Previously, senior Congress leer Kapil Sibal said that re is way a state can deny implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) when it is alrey passed by Parliament and claimed that doing so would be "unconstitutional". Ar Congress lawyer and senior leer Abhishek Manu Singhvi too backed Sibal.
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Punjab, Kerala pass anti-CAA resolutions, Rajasthan next
Kerala government earlier this week moved Supreme Court against CAA, seeking to declare it “violative of principles of equality, freedom, and secularism enshrined in Constitution”. On its heels, Punjab government too passed a resolution demanding to scrap contentious law. Next, Rajasthan has declared it will pass a resolution against law on January 24, first day of its next session. Several states like Maharashtra, Mhya Presh, West Bengal, Telangana, and or n-BJP states are mullling same, while openly opposing CAA-NRC-NPR.
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10:10 IST, January 20th 2020