New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that the Muslim community is being agitated over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Announcing that the CAA would be implemented before the Lok Sabha elections, he assured the minority community that their citizenship would not be taken away.

“CAA is an act of the country, it will definitely be notified. It will be notified before elections. CAA will be implemented through elections, and there should be no confusion around it. Shah said in ET Now-Global Business. Summit in the national capital
He said that there is no provision in the act to take away the citizenship of any person.
“Minorities in our country, and especially our Muslim community, are being instigated. CAA cannot take away citizenship because there is no scope in the Act. CAA provides asylum to victims of persecution in Bangladesh and Pakistan. An Act to provide citizenship to refugees.” added
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CAA was passed by Parliament in 2019. However, the Center is yet to notify its rules.
The act makes it easier for non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh — who arrived in India before December 31, 2014 — to get Indian citizenship.
In 2019, the passage of the Act led to massive protests in the Shaheen Bagh area of the national capital.
Amit Shah today attacked Congress over the law.
“CAA was a promise of the Congress government. When the country was divided and minorities were oppressed in those countries, the Congress had assured the refugees that they were welcome in India and would be given Indian citizenship. Now they are retreating”. he added.
At the event, he said that the Uniform Civil Code was a constitutional agenda that was first signed by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru but was later ignored by the Congress party due to its politics of appeasement.
“But Congress ignored it out of complacency. Implementation of UCC in Uttarakhand is a social change. It will be discussed in all forums and will face legal scrutiny. A secular country. I cannot have a civil code based on religion,” he said.