EU vote on draft resolution of Citizenship Amendment Act postponed

Voting in European Union (EU) Parliament on draft resolution of  Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) been postponed to March, government sources confirmed on Thursday.  30-minute debate ended with most MEPs positive or netural towards India, few negative and only one Pakistan-origin British MEP strongly negative.

In a diplomatic victory for India, it was decided that re will be no voting on European resolution on CAA. Six political groups of members of European Parliament h moved a joint resolution against India's new citizenship law, calling it discriminatory.

Sources informed that friends of India prevailed over those of Pakistan in European Parliament on Wednesday. "Strenuous efforts of outgoing British MEP Shaffaq Mohamm to have a resolution passed by European Parliament against India on penultimate day before Brexit was defeated," a source said.

Indian government has been maintaining that CAA is an internal matter to India and was opted following a due process through democratic means. "We expect that our perspectives in this matter will be understood by all objective and fair-minded MEPs," sources ded.

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Resolution against CAA in European Union

A total of six resolutions were tabled by political blocs within EU across ideological lines. resolution was against India's new citizenship law, alleging that it marks a “dangerous shift” in country's citizenship regime. resolutions urge Indian authorities to "engage constructively" with those protesting against law and consider ir demands to repeal "discriminatory CAA." 

" CAA marks a dangerous shift in way citizenship will be determined in India and is set to create largest statelessness crisis in world and cause immense human suffering," according to GUE/NGL resolution.

"Inste of dressing concerns, offering corrective action, calling for security forces to act with restraint and ensuring accountability, many government leers have been engaging in efforts to discredit, rebuke and threaten protesters," it ded.

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