The Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) which seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim migrants who got here right here from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan on or earlier than December 31, 2014, has been into controversy because it was handed by Parliament. While a case can be filed in opposition to the act within the Supreme Court, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar was requested about his view on the brand new US envoy to India Eric Garcetti’s assertion that CAA is discriminatory in direction of Muslims, the EAM stated that nations just like the United States and Germany have already got comparable legal guidelines.Â
“First of all, when CAA was passed, there was a debate and people in this country tried to make it an international debate. It was interesting because when I went around the world and explained to different countries please look at your citizenship criteria and tell me, are you less specific in terms of how you have defined the criteria than we have? Take the United States (for example), the two very well-known amendments there, something called the Lautenberg amendment and Specter amendment, which actually single out specific communities and specific faiths, and give them a faster pathway into citizenship…This is not just the US, if you look at Europe, the Germans have a faster citizenship pathway for people of German descent in other countries,” stated Jaishankar to a information channel.
He additional stated that folks being persecuted in lots of nations have nowhere to go than India. “In many cases, the people who are persecuted have nowhere else to go except to India. If you are a Hindu in Pakistan, who is being oppressed, where else will you go other than India?…Let him (Eric Garcetti) come here, pyar se samjha denge,” stated Jaishankar.
During his interview, Jaishankar additionally lashed out at Rahul Gandhi over his Cambridge speech.
