Amit Shah: CAA to be implemented after vaccination

New Delhi, February 11

Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday put off the implementation of the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) for the time being and announced that the Act would be notified after the vaccination drive against Covid-19 was over.

Shah, who is on a tour of West Bengal to drum up support for the BJP for the impending Assembly elections, was speaking at a meeting at Thakurnagar, considered Mecca of the numerically strong refugees of the Matua caste from across the border.

Shah said in the “auspicious venue” associated with Matua leaders Harichand Thakur and Guruchand Thakur, he would like to assure people that the CAA would be implemented after the vaccination drive was over. Shah said in 2018, the BJP had promised that the existing law on citizenship would be amended to accord the status of citizenship to people from neighbouring countries who sought refuge in India because of religious persecution. — TNS