Resolution against CAA: Congress manifesto for Delhi polls

New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday released its manifesto for Delhi polls, promising to pass a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act if elected to power.

In the last column of its manifesto, the party said that it will pass the resolution in the first session of the Delhi Assembly after the elections and will ask the Centre to withdraw the Act.

The manifesto stated: “The CAA brought by the BJP is against the basic spirit of our constitution. By February 21, 2020, the INC government will go to the Apex court and challenge the constitutional validity of the CAA under article 131.”

The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) facilitates citizenship to the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian minorities, who had fled persecution from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan before December 2014. After the passage of the Act in Parliament, violence erupted in various parts of the country in which scores of people were killed. A major anti-CAA protest is also going on at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh area.

The Congress has been vocal against the CAA ever since it was passed by Parliament. (IANS)

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