New Delhi: State Minister for Nityanand Rai’s home business to Lok Sabha that the government had sought further time until January 9, 2022, to frame and notify the rules of the citizenship amendment law (CAA).
He replied to the question of Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi about whether the government had skipped deadlines to frame and notify the CAA rules and steps taken in this context.
“The Citizenship (Amandment) Act, 2019 (CAA) has been notified at 12.12.2019 and has already applicable WEF 10,01,2020,” Minister said.
“Committee on subordinate laws, Lok Sabya and Rajya Sabha have been asked to provide a further extension of up to 09.01.2022 to frame the rules under the citizenship law (amendment), 2019,” Rai said.
CAA accepted the President’s approval on December 12, 2019 and came into force on January 10, 2020.
In accordance with the manual about parliamentary work, the rules for each law must be increased in the six months of the president’s approval or seeking an extension.
This is the fifth extension sought by the government to frame these rules.
The goal of CAA is to provide Indian citizenship to six minority communities of religion – Hinduism, Sikh, Jain, Buddha, Parsis and Christians from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who are forced to move to India who are afraid of religious persecution at home.
Those from these communities that came to the Indi to December 31, 2014, facing religious persecution there, would not be treated as illegal immigrants but were given Indian citizenship.
Spacious protests were witnessed in various parts of the country after the passage of CAA by the parliament which led to the death of nearly 100 people in police shots and related violence.
(With agency input)