CAA rules in the making, Nadda says in Bengal

SILIGURI: With an eye on the 2021 assembly elections in Bengal, BJP chief J P Nadda on Monday revived the citizenship issue at the party’s Siliguri organisational meeting, 10 months after the Citizenship (Amendment) Act — passed in Parliament in December 2019 — was put on the backburner “due to the pandemic”.




“You will get CAA. Rules are in the making. The process got delayed due to the pandemic. We will be releasing the rules as and when the country is back on the Covid recovery path,” Nadda said on Monday, indicating that BJP was committed to giving citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from neighbouring Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The BJP president’s announcement, read with Union home minister Amit Shah’s comment on the possibility of President’s Rule in Bengal, makes it apparent the party brass wants to pursue CAA in Bengal ahead of the polls.