“Wait till tomorrow,” Amarinder Singh said when asked by media if the government will bring in a resolution, on the lines of Kerala, against the CAA
Chandigarh: The Punjab Assembly is all set to bring a resolution demanding the removal of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, official sources said. Earlier Kerala government also passed the same resolution in there respective assembly.
A minister would move a resolution on the second day of the two-day special session of the Assembly urging the Centre to repeal the Act, the sources said.
Chief Minister of Punjab Amarinder Singh had on Thursday not ruled out the possibility of bringing a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
“Wait till tomorrow,” Amarinder Singh said when asked by media if the government will bring in a resolution, on the lines of Kerala, against the CAA.
The state government led by Congress on Tuesday said it will proceed according to the “will of the House” on the issue of CAA, National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR).
Recently Singh had said his government would not allow the implementation of the “brazenly divisive CAA”.
Reacting to the development, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said he commended the Punjab Assembly for considering to move the resolution to repeal the CAA.
On Tuesday after a cabinet meeting, his colleagues in the ministry had expressed concern over the implications of the “blatantly unconstitutional and divisive CAA, NRC and NPR.”
“The cabinet ministers had an opinion that the matter of CAA was bound to be raised during the two-day session of the assembly on January 16-17 and it was unanimously decided that the government should accept the decision of the House,” an official statement said.
Amarinder Singh said neither he nor the Congress was against granting citizenship to minorities persecuted on the basis of religion. But we were completely opposed to the “discrimination in the CAA against certain religious communities, including Muslims”.
Earlier in December 2019, the Kerala Assembly had recently passed a resolution demanding the revoking of the controversial law, becoming the first state in India to do so. It had asked the Central government to cancel the controversial legislation that has triggered nationwide protests. The resolution was supported by all the MLAs of assembly except BJP’s O Rajagopal.
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