Hyderabad, March 16: AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has filed a petition in the Supreme Court against implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act 2019.
He has sought immediate stay on CAA rules. Hoping for a positive outcome, he said every constitutional and democratic process must be used to prevent CAA-NPR-NRC.
Owaisi said that their case challenging CAA is already in the Supreme Court but at that time the Government of India said that the rules are yet not framed. “But now as the government has issued the notifications and has framed the rules for CAA, going to the Supreme Court is a must. If the Government starts giving citizenship based on an unconstitutional law, it can be harmful. This Government is saying that if your religion is Islam, we won’t provide you citizenship, for this we have moved to the Supreme Court,” he said.
The law was passed in 2019 by the ruling party, but they keep it as it is, when they saw that there would be an announcement for elections in a week, they came up with rules overnight, keeping in mind the elections.
Owaisi alleged that the BJP-led government wants to make the poor and Muslims stateless. “No one should see CAA without NPR and NRC,” he said and recalled that Home Minister Amit Shah had said in the Parliament and in many interviews that the NRC will follow the CAA.
In his latest petition, Owaisi has requested the Supreme Court to issue directions staying the implementation of the impugned Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 and the Amendment Rules, 2024 till the final disposal of the instant writ petition.
He prayed to the court to issue directions that during the pendency of these proceedings, no recourse shall be permitted to be taken by any person to the provision to Section 2(1)(b) of the Citizenship Act, 1955 (as it stands amended by the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 in any proceedings relating to citizenship before any court, tribunal or authority in India.
He also sought directions that no applications seeking grant of citizenship status be entertained or processed during the pendency of the proceedings.
