Dehradun. Terming the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as a relief for religious minorities persecuted in neighboring countries, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday said India does not need any preaching from other countries on this issue. Dhankhar also said that falsehoods and misinformation are being spread regarding CAA. CAA was notified last month. Addressing the 2023 batch IAS officer trainees at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie, Dhankhar said, “India does not need to take sermons from anyone on the issue of equality because we always believe in it.” ,
He said, “Some countries do not yet have a woman President, whereas here we had a woman Prime Minister even before Britain.” In other countries, the Supreme Courts completed 200 years without a woman judge, whereas this has happened in our country.
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‘CAA does not take away anyone’s citizenship’
The Vice President said that the CAA neither deprives any Indian citizen of his citizenship nor prevents anyone from applying for Indian citizenship as was the case earlier. He said that CAA provides facilities to persecuted religious minorities from neighboring countries to acquire Indian citizenship.
He asked, “How can this relief, therapeutic relationship be discriminatory to those who are persecuted in our neighborhood because of their religious convictions?” Dhankhar reminded that the CAA applies only to those who were born on or before December 31, 2014. Have come to India. He said this is “not an invitation” for influx of people. “We have to neutralize these narratives,” he said. These arise not from ignorance, but from a strategy to destroy our country.
Dhankhar called on the youth to reject “strategic orchestration of factually untenable anti-national narratives aimed at tarnishing and tarnishing our glorious and strong constitutional bodies”. The Vice President said that governance has improved in recent years. “The democratic values and its essence are deepening as equality before law is being implemented in an exemplary manner,” he said.
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Tags: CAA, CAA-NRC, Jagdeep Dhankar, Modi government
FIRST PUBLISHED: April 6, 2024, 02:01 IST