“CAA will never be rolled back,” Says Amit Shah

New Delhi: “CAA will never be rolled back,” said Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

Speaking to the news agency ANI, Shah accused the Opposition parties of resorting to “politics of lies” regarding the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). According to him, the CAA is not against Muslims.

“The minorities of the country need not be afraid because it has no provision to take back the rights of any citizen,” Shah said in the interview.

The CAA, he said, aims to give citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim migrants, including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, who arrived in India before December 31, 2014.

Muslims, he said, have the right to apply for citizenship in India as per the rules of the Constitution, but this law is meant for persecuted minorities from these countries.

He dismissed the criticism that CAA is “unconstitutional”. “This law does not violate Article 14, he added.