New Delhi: Rajasthan government has seen a U-turn against CAA i.e. Citizenship Amendment Act. In fact, the Bhajanlal government of Rajasthan has decided to withdraw the petition filed by the Ashok Gehlot government in the Supreme Court against CAA. Bhajanlal government of Rajasthan will not oppose the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the Supreme Court. Let us tell you that recently the Central Government has implemented the CAA law in the entire country.
In fact, the then Ashok Gehlot government had filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the Citizenship Amendment Act of the Central Government. But now the present Bhajanlal Sharma government has applied in the Supreme Court to withdraw the petition and has said that it will not oppose this law. On behalf of Rajasthan Government’s Additional Advocate General Shivmangal, an application has been filed in the Supreme Court to withdraw the petition filed against CAA.
Let us tell you that the issue of Citizenship Amendment Act has now reached the Supreme Court. This matter was heard in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. There are a total of 237 petitions in the Supreme Court challenging the Citizenship Amendment Act. The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Center to respond within three weeks to applications seeking stay on the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024. However, the top court refused to stay the implementation of the rules giving effect to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
Senior advocates representing the petitioners had urged for a stay on the implementation of the rules till the decision on the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship Amendment Act is taken. At the same time, the Center on its part said that CAA does not take away anyone’s citizenship. CJI Chandrachud, Justice J. B. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Center on a bench comprising Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Mishra, said they needed four weeks to respond to the 20 applications.
The court issued a notice to the Center on this and sought response on the applications within three weeks. The bench said that we are not expressing any prima facie view… We have to hear the petitioners, we have to hear the other side. The next hearing of the case will be on April 9. The applications have urged that the rules related to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019, should be put on hold till the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019 are disposed of.
Four years after Parliament passed the controversial law, the Center on March 11 paved the way for the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, by notifying the related rules. This law has a provision for speedy granting of Indian citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants who came to India from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan before December 31, 2014. Senior advocate Indira Jaisingh, appearing for the petitioners, said that the Center should give a statement that no one will be given citizenship till the hearing is pending. (from input language)
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Tags: ashok gehlot, Bhajan Lal Sharma, Supreme Court
FIRST PUBLISHED: March 20, 2024, 10:40 IST