DMK will continue to fight against CAA, says Stalin
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DMK chief M.K. Stalin on Sunday stated his get together would continue to urge the union authorities to scrap the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act and confer citizeship on Sri Lankan Tamils dwelling in refugee camps in India.
In an addendum to the get together manifesto unveiled on Saturday, he stated DMK had all alongside opposed the CAA and campaigned against it and he even ran a marketing campaign in Tamil Nadu accumulating one crore signatures urgent for scrapping the legislation.
“The Central government will be urged to withdraw the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019,” Mr. Stalin stated within the addendum.
The DMK in its manifesto has stated that the Centre can be requested to embody Sri Lanka within the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and provides citizenship to Lankan Tamil refugees dwelling in camps in India.
Making the addition, Mr. Stalin stated his get together had all alongside opposed the CAA and campaigned against it and he even ran a signature marketing campaign in Tamil Nadu accumulating one crore signatures searching for the scrapping of the laws.
“I would like to reiterate again that a resolution will be passed in the assembly (if DMK is voted to power) and will raise its voice for scrapping CAA,” he stated in a press release.
The DMK prime chief additionally added two extra factors to the manifesto, an assurance that the “anti-farmer” Chennai-Salem expressway venture wouldn’t be applied and the Kattupalli port shall not be allowed right here and the draft atmosphere evaluation report for it could be rejected.
The DMK launched its 505-point manifesto that includes a bunch of extremely populist guarantees. Waiver of crop and jewel loans in cooperative banks and a one-time help of ₹ 4,000 for COVID-19 hit rice ration card holders had been among the many assurances.
Protests had been held in numerous components of the state against the CAA, which expedites citizenship purposes from non secular minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
DMK had questioned why Muslims and Tamil refugees of Sri Lanka had been saved out of the ambit of the act and alleged it ‘divided’ folks on the premise of faith.
The expressway venture witnessed a number of protests by farmers and others over land acquisition and atmosphere considerations.
The greenfield hall was challenged within the Madras High Court which quashed the land acquisition proceedings and Pattali Makkal Katchi (an ally of the AIADMK now) chief Anbumani Ramadoss was among the many petitioners against the venture in court docket.
However, the Supreme Court had in December final 12 months upheld the notification for land acquisition for the ₹ 10,000 crore eight lane venture.
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