‘I guarantee, CAA will be implemented in every state of India within 7 days,’ says union minister Shantanu Thakur

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Citizenship (Amendment) Act, also known as CAA, is set to be implemented nationwide within the next seven days. As reported by PTI, Thakur made these remarks during a public rally in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, on Sunday. “The Ram mandir (temple) in Ayodhya has been inaugurated, and within the next seven days, the CAA will be implemented across the country.

This is my guarantee. Not just in West Bengal, the CAA would be implemented in every state of India within a week," BJP's Lok Sabha MP from Bangaon, said. Also Read: ‘CAA will be implemented the moment Covid ends’: Amit Shah in Bengal's Siliguri Implemented by the Narendra Modi government, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA grants Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants, including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians, from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan who arrived in India by December 31, 2014.

The CAA, passed by Parliament in December 2019 and receiving presidential assent, triggered widespread protests in various parts of the country. As reported by PTI, a senior government official mentioned that the rules for the CAA would be notified "much before" the announcement of the Lok Sabha elections. In the wake of the passage of the CAA by Parliament in December 2019 and its subsequent Presidential assent, widespread protests erupted across different regions of the country.