Tipra Motha Party founder Pradyot Kishore Debbarman on Sunday vehemently opposed the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) areas.
BJP president JP Nadda has hit out over "south mein saaf and north mein haaf'" jibe at the party by some opposition parties and asserted that the BJP will retain its Lok Sabha seats in north India while having a lead over Congress in the southern states.
The Centre's much-debated Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), by which members of religious minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, who settled in the country as refugees after fleeing alleged persecution in their homelands, are to be given permanent Indian residency; could well
Naddu accused Mamata Banerjee of providing shelter to infiltrators and giving them ID cards and ration cards, making them voters, and called such actions 'anti-national'.
The Tripura state government has started the process of appointing officials to the State Level Empowered Committee and the District Level Committee for the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that if the INDIA bloc is elected to power in Delhi, it will remove the NRC, CAA, and Uniform Civil Code.
The refugees hailing from Pakistan and residing in Delhi on Thursday expressed gratitude to the central government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing them with Indian citizenship through Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
All District Magistrates have been asked to form committees and designate officials so that the processing of applications received under the new law can be carried out in a hassle-free manner.
"Desh mein koi maai ka laal paida hua hai jo CAA hata sake? (has anyone been born in this country who can repeal the CAA?). Nobody can remove the CAA," PM Modi said.
Stating its opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) national general secretary PK Kunjalikutty on Thursday said that implementation of CAA during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections is taken to influence the polls and an action must be initiated against it.
Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting and Youth Affairs & Sports Anurag Thakur lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on Wednesday, saying that the PM will enable the citizens of the country to get their identity.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath congratulated the 14 applicants who were granted Indian citizenship certificates under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in New Delhi on Wednesday.