Arvind Kejriwal Criticizes CAA Implementation, Citing Safety Concerns Amid Amit Shah’s Response

Arvind Kejriwal Criticizes CAA Implementation, Citing Safety Concerns Amid Amit Shah’s Response

Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, reaffirmed on Thursday his opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), claiming that its implementation will increase national security. According to Kejriwal, “the CAA’s implementation will make the country unsafe and create a law-and-order situation.” “It is unacceptable to use public funds to support minorities from other countries.” The chief minister of Delhi made his comments just hours after Amit Shah, the Union home minister, responded to Kejriwal’s criticism of the CAA by claiming that Kejriwal’s fury was caused by his party’s purported exposure in corruption cases.

Shah criticized Kejriwal for his claims that the CAA will increase crime and take away employment intended for India’s youth, pointing out that those who will gain from the law are already in the country. “Kejriwal doesn’t realize that all of these people have previously come to our country in search of protection. They call India home. Those who entered our nation by 2014 will be granted citizenship. And if he’s worried, why doesn’t he discuss infiltrators from Bangladesh? For what reason does he not oppose the Rohingyas? It’s because they engage in politics based on vote banks. Vote-bank politics is his strategy because he anticipates a difficult time during the Delhi elections. Are the infiltrators from Bangladesh and the Rohingyas snatching our jobs? The home minister said in an interview that “he is just raising his voice against minorities of Jains, Buddhists, and Parsis.”

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Kejriwal said that he had not received a satisfactory response from Home Minister Amit Shah about the CAA. Kejriwal continued, “The Home Minister did not respond to any of my questions, but he claimed that I am corrupt.” “I am irrelevant. I ask him, “How are we going to provide jobs and housing for Pakistani refugees if we can’t even employ our own people?” Greater migration than that which occurred during the division will result from CAA.” Kejriwal had earlier on Wednesday said that the public wanted the CAA to be abolished and called the party’s enforcement of the law ahead of the Lok Sabha elections “dirty vote bank politics.” On Monday, the Center put into effect the controversial Citizenship by Attainment Act (CAA), which provides citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim immigrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan who came to India before December 31, 2014. Four years after the law was passed by Parliament in December 2019, the development took place.