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‘Can’t do terror politics just because we have numbers’: BJP’s Chandra Bose on CAA

20 January 2020

The CAA led to protests in the entire country where the Congress-led Opposition called for the scrapping of the new act.

     

West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party vice-president and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose has said that a law should not be thrust on the citizens in a democratic country. He was speaking about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA passed by Parliament last month.

“Our job is to explain to people that we are right and they are wrong. You cannot be abusive. Just because we have numbers today we cannot do terror politics. Let us go to people explaining benefits of CAA,” Bose said on Sunday, according to news agency ANI.

“Once a bill has been passed as an act, it is binding on the state governments, that is the legal position but in a democratic country you cannot thrust any act on the citizens of our country,” he added.

Bose also said that he has suggested some modifications to the bill which will puncture the entire Opposition campaign. “We need to specifically state that it is meant for persecuted minorities, we should not mention any religion. Our approach should be different,” he said.

The CAA led to protests in the entire country where the Congress-led Opposition called for the scrapping of the new act. The protests have been most vehement in West Bengal where the ruling Trinamool Congress and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has vowed that she will not allow the act to be implemented in her state.

A debate has been raging in the country over the law’s implementation with the Congress saying states have the right to challenge the Centre and cannot be “forced” to implement the “unconstitutional law” till the petition over it in the Supreme Court is decided.

The Congress’ assertion comes in the wake of senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal’s statement that there is no way a state can deny the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) when it is already passed by Parliament.

Sibal, however, later asserted that every state assembly has the constitutional right to pass a resolution and seek CAA’s withdrawal, but if the law is declared constitutional by the Supreme Court then it will be problematic to oppose it.

The CAA seeks to fast-track citizenship to six persecuted minorities form India’s three neighbouring countries who came to the country on or before December 31,2014.

Source: Hindustan Times

 

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