Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday announced that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which was approved by the Parliament in December 2019, would be announced and put into effect before to the next Lok Sabha elections.CAA is an Act of the country, it will be definitely be notified. It will be notified before the polls. CAA will be implemented by the polls, and there should be no confusion around it, Shah said speaking at the ET Now-Global Business summit in the national capital.CAA was a promise of the Congress government. When the country was divided and the minorities were persecuted in those countries, Congress had assured the refugees that they were welcome in India and they will be provided with Indian citizenship. Now they are backtracking, Shah said.Shah also asserted that CAA was brought into provide citizenship and not to take anyones.The CAA was introduced by the Narendra Modi government which aims to confer Indian citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim migrants, including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians, who migrated from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and arrived in India before December 31, 2014.Significant protests broke out around the nation when the CAA was approved by Parliament in December 2019 and was subsequently got presidential assent.The home minister stated that corruption is the main issue in this election, which is related to the impending Lok Sabha elections.
