The CAA was brought to accommodate the 12 lakh Hindus among the 19 lakh people who could not be included in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, he claimed.
Current Affairs: Senior Congress pioneer P Chidambaram on Thursday said there must be an “immense mass development” if any Muslim was sent to confinement camps in the event that the Supreme Court maintained the legitimacy of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
Talking at the JNU grounds here, the previous Union clergyman said the CAA was a result of the “NRC disaster” in Assam that kept 19 lakh individuals separate from the archive.
The CAA was brought to suit the 12 lakh Hindus among the 19 lakh individuals who couldn’t be remembered for the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, he guaranteed.
Answering to an inquiry by an understudy on the best strategy if the CAA was maintained by the peak court, Chidambaram stated, “When they contact the excluded…they may be Muslims, attempt to distinguish and toss them out, announce them stateless, there must be an immense mass development, opposing any Muslim being tossed out or kept in detainment camps.”
He likewise said the Congress accepted that the CAA must be canceled and there ought to be a political battle so the National Population Register (NPR) was pushed past 2024.
Asserting that the NRC, CAA and NPR were “firmly associated” to one another, Chidambaram stated, “The CAA was brought because of the NRC disaster in Assam and the resistance to the CAA offered path to the NPR.”
Aditi Mehta 