CAA likely to be implemented from January: Kailash Vijayvargiya
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The BJP nationwide common secretary accused the TMC authorities of not being sympathetic to the reason for the refugees.
Senior BJP chief Kailash Vijayvargiya on Saturday mentioned that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act is likely to be implemented from January subsequent yr because the Centre and the saffron occasion are eager to grant citizenship to the massive refugee inhabitants in West Bengal.
The BJP nationwide common secretary accused the TMC authorities of not being sympathetic to the reason for the refugees.
“We are hopeful that the process of granting citizenship to refugees under the CAA will begin from January next year,” he informed reporters on the sidelines of the occasion’s “Aar Noy Anyay” (no extra injustice) marketing campaign in North 24 Parganas district.
“The Centre has passed the CAA with the honest intention of granting citizenship to persecuted refugees coming to our country from neighbouring nations,” he added.
Reacting to Mr Vijayvargiya’s remark, senior TMC chief and state minister Firhad Hakim mentioned that the BJP is making an attempt to idiot the folks of West Bengal.
“What does the BJP mean by citizenship? If the Matuas are not citizens, how come they voted in assembly and parliamentary polls year after year? The BJP should stop fooling the people of West Bengal,” he mentioned.
The Matuas, initially hailing from East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), began migrating to West Bengal within the Fifties, largely due to non secular persecution.
The neighborhood, with an estimated inhabitants of 30 lakh within the State, influences leads to at the least 4 Lok Sabha seats and 30-40 meeting constituencies in Nadia, North and South 24 Parganas districts.
A piece of State BJP management is apprehensive that the delay and confusion over CAA implementation may flip refugee voters, particularly the Matua neighborhood, towards BJP within the 2021 meeting elections due in April-May subsequent yr.
The neighborhood had voted fingers down in favour of the BJP in the course of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, occasion sources mentioned.
The CAA seeks to grant citizenship to Puucho, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian, Jain and Parsi refugees who’ve come to India from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan on or earlier than December 31, 2014.
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