Union Minister Shantanu Thakur claims nationwide CAA implementation within 7 days

Shantanu Thakur said not just in West Bengal the CAA would be implemented in every state of India within a week

January 29, 2024

Union Minister Shantanu Thakur’s big ‘guarantee’ in Bengal, says CAA across India within 7 days

Union Minister, BJP leader Shantanu Thakur has claimed that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) would be implemented across India within the next seven days.

While Addressing a public rally in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas on Sunday, Shantanu Thakur said, “The Ram Mandir in Ayodhya has been inaugurated, and within the next seven days, the CAA will be implemented across the country. This is my guarantee. Not just in West Bengal, the CAA would be implemented in every state of India within a week.”

Shantanu Thakur, BJP’s Lok Sabha MP from Bangaon, Bengal, reiterated Union Home Minister Amit Shah in his CAA statement.

In December last year, Amit Shah asserted that the BJP-headed central government would implement the CAA and “no one can stop it“. His remarks were targeted at Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has been staunchly opposed to the CAA.

During his speech at a big rally at Kolkata’s iconic Esplanade, Amit Shah also launched scathing attacks against Mamata Banerjee on the issues of infiltration, corruption, political violence, and appeasement and urged people to dethrone her government from Bengal and elect BJP in the 2026 Assembly elections.

He had also clarified the intended beneficiaries, saying they have as much right to citizenship as anyone else.

Soon after its passing in both Houses of Parliament and receiving the President’s assent in 2019, the CAA has been at the forefront of massive protests all over India and the Opposition’s strong stand against it.

According to the official, CAA rules are ready with the Centre and will be notified “much before” the announcement of the Lok Sabha elections. The official further said that the online portal for the CAA is also in place and the entire process will be digital.

“The applicants will have to declare the year when they entered India without travel documents. No document will be sought from the applicants,” the official said.

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