Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin declared on Tuesday that the Citizenship Modification Act (CAA) wouldn’t be enacted within the state, following the notification of its rules by the Union authorities, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sooner or later earlier.
Stalin dismissed the CAA as divisive and bereft of any use.
As well as, he criticized the BJP authorities on the Centre for hurriedly asserting the rules for enacting the CAA simply earlier than the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
The CAA is not going to be of any service or profit; quite the opposite, it is going to simply serve to additional polarize the Indian inhabitants. The federal government’s place is that this statute must be repealed as a result of it’s fully unwarranted.
Due to this fact, the Tamil Nadu authorities is not going to give any alternative in any method to implement the CAA in Tamil Nadu, he stated in a press launch.
Stalin, the president of the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), underlined that the CAA was against minority communities, range, secularism, and the Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka.
The CAA was permitted by the Parliament in 2019 over widespread opposition. For non-Muslim immigrants who got here to India earlier than 2014, reminiscent of Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians, the act expedites the citizenship course of. These migrants could also be from Bangladesh, Pakistan, or Afghanistan. As well as, the Opposition events have constantly criticized the CAA Act and triggered a number of delays for it.
The Citizenship Modification Act’s guidelines had been introduced by the MHA on Monday. The Union Ministry of Dwelling Affairs stated in a submit on X, previously Twitter, that these guidelines, known as the Citizenship (Modification) Guidelines, 2024, will allow the individuals eligible beneath CAA-2019 to use for a grant of Indian citizenship.
Particulars state that candidates in search of citizenship should declare the yr they entered India with out correct documentation and submit all of their purposes on-line utilizing a lately created portal.