Senior Congress leader P Chidambram on Sunday hit out at Union Home Minister Amit Shah for his comments that no one from the minority community will be affected by amended Citizenship Act and asked why then was the community excluded from the law in the first place.
Addressing a rally in Kolkata, Shah assuredpeople of the minority community that not a single person will lose citizenshipdue to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
“The Home Minister says that nominority will be affected by CAA. If this is correct, they should tell thecountry who would be affected by CAA. If no one would be affected by CAA, as itcurrently is, why did the government pass the law?
“If the CAA aims to benefit allminorities (no one will be affected, says HM), then why are Muslims excludedfrom the list of minorities mentioned in the Act?,” the former financeminister asked in a post on Twitter.
At his first public rally in Kolkata afterthe 2019 general elections, Shah said, “The opposition is terrorising theminorities. I assure every person from the minority community that the CAA onlyprovides citizenship, does not take it away. It won’t affect yourcitizenship.””The opposition parties are spreadingcanards that refugees will have to show papers but this is absolutely false.You don’t have to show any paper. We will not stop until all refugees aregranted citizenship,” Shah told the public.