Edited by Deepali Verma
Union Minister Shantanu Thakur has claimed that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) would be implemented across Bharat in the span of next seven days.
“It is my guarantee that in the next seven days, not just in West Bengal, but the CAA will be implemented across Bharat,” Thakur remarked in Bengali during his public address in Kakdwip in South 24 Parganas in Bengal.
BJP’s Lok Sabha MP Shantanu Thakur from Bengal’s Bangaon reiterated exactly what Union Home Minister Amit Shah had remarked in his CAA statement. Amit Shah, last year, had asserted that the central government headed by BJP would implement the CAA and “no one can stop it”. His remarks were said keeping in mind the target, Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has staunchly stood against the CAA.
Amit Shah’s speech during a big rally at Kolkata’s iconic Esplanade, had also launched scathing attacks against Mamata Banerjee concerning the issues of infiltration, corruption, political violence and appeasement and encouraged people to do away with her government from Bengal and instead elect BJP in the 2026 Assembly elections.
Shah, clarifying on behalf of the intended beneficiaries, said that they have as much right to citizenship as anyone else.
Once passed in both Houses of Parliament and receiving the President’s assent in 2019, the CAA has been subjected to massive protests all over Bharat and the Opposition’s strong stance against it.
News agency PTI, quoting an official, reported earlier this month that the CAA rules are prepared with the Centre and the official announcement of the same would come before the Lok Sabha elections. The official further informed that the online portal for the CAA has been established and the entire process will be digital.
“The applicants will have to declare their year of entry in Bharat without travel documents. No document will be sought from the applicants,” reports of PTI reported, as per the official.
