“EAM S Jaishankar gives ‘befitting reply’ to US Ambassador Eric Garcetti’s criticism of the CAA”, Organiser, March 19, 2024:
“The External Affairs Minister of India, Subramaniam Jaishankar, rejected the United States criticism of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) stating that remarks were made without understanding the historical context of the law.
He said that the CAA was brought to address the problem of partition and the world is reacting as if partition never happened. Speaking at a media conclave, when referring to the US Ambassador’s comments, that principles of freedom and equality are prime in a democracy, the Foreign Minister said, “I am not questioning the imperfections of a democracy, their principles or their lack of it. I am questioning their understanding of history.”
“If you hear the comments made from many parts of the world, it is as if the partition of India never happened, and there were no consequential problems which the CAA is supposed to address,” he said. “If you take out a problem, and remove all the historical contexts, sanitise it, and make it into a politically correct argument and say oh I have my principles and you don’t have principles,” the minister said……”
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