“Opinion | CAA Is Anti-Persecution, Not Anti-Muslim”, News 18, March 13, 2024:
“The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has nothing whatsoever to do with India’s 220 million Muslims. Why then has the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), a Congress ally in Kerala, petitioned the Supreme Court to “pause” the implementation of the CAA?
Moving beyond the interminably debated legalese in the CAA’s updated 39-page notified rules, what stands out is the contrasting reaction to the Act between the regressive Muslim who fears the CAA and the progressive Muslim who welcomes it. The IUML had also petitioned the Supreme Court against the CAA when it was first legislated in 2019. Then, as now, it called the Act “unconstitutional”. It added that it was “discriminatory” against Muslims.
IUML is wrong on both counts. The CAA is not unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has not ruled for over four years on more than 250 petitions against the CAA that have piled up in its registry since 2019…..”
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