CAA will be implemented after Covid vaccination: Amit Shah

TIL Desk/National/WB/ Union home minister Amit Shah has said the process of granting Indian citizenship to refugees under the Citizenship (amendment) Act, including to the Matua community of West Bengal, will begin once the process of COVID-19 vaccination has ended.

Accusing the opposition parties of misleading the minorities about the Citizenship (amendment) Act, he said, its implementation will not impact the citizenship status of Indian minorities. Shah said the Modi government had in 2018 promised it will bring in a new citizenship law and kept it when the Bharatiya Janata Party was voted to power in 2019.

He said, after the country was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, its implementation had to be kept in abeyance.”Mamata didi said we made a false promise. She started opposing the CAA and saying she will never allow it. The BJP always fulfils the promises it makes. We have brought this law and refugees will get citizenship.

“As soon as the COVID vaccination process ends the process of granting citizenship under CAA will begin. All of you will be respected citizens of this country,” he said, addressing a rally here in the bastion of the Matua community.