The Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), which aims to grant citizenship to undocumented Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, will be put into effect after the vaccination campaign for the precautionary dose is over, according to Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday.
The administration has blamed the pandemic epidemic for not framing them earlier.
When Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, met with Shah in Parliament House on Tuesday to discuss the operation of the BJP in West Bengal as well as organizational issues, Shah gave Adhikari this assurance. Adhikari claimed following the meeting that the Home Minister had informed him that the government would move on with the CAA’s long-delayed implementation once the third dose of the Covid vaccination had been administered.
Following their discussion, Adhikari, the opposition leader in the state assembly, told reporters that Shah had also given him a list of almost 100 Trinamool Congress leaders who were allegedly involved in the recruiting scandal that led to the arrest of former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee.
The CAA was announced the following day after being approved by Parliament on December 11, 2019. Even though there have been strong demands from a variety of sources, including the northeastern states, the government has yet to draft rules for the Act.
