No CAA in Kerala, assures CM Pinarayi Vijayan, questions Rahul Gandhi's silence on issue
Mallikarjun Kharge are yet to comment on the notification of implementation of CAA. Despite the lack of support from Congress on the CAA issue, the CM contended that the Kerala government will “neither bend nor keep silent".
Reacting to the 'No CAA in Kerala', Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted that the state does not have the right to do so. "In our Constitution, the right to make laws concerning citizenship has been given only to Parliament.
This is a Central subject, not the state's, both the law and its implementation," he said during an interview with news agency ANI. Shah also said that the Citizenship Amendment Act does not violate any provision of the constitution.
"CAA has been brought by the BJP government led by PM Modi. It is impossible to repeal CAA...It is a fully constitutional law," the Home Minister said.
The CAA grants citizenship to undocumented migrants of all religions -- except Muslims -- from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan who arrived in India before December 31, 2014. (With agency inputs)Milestone Alert!
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