Rajnath Singh Asks BJP MPs To Be Present When Citizenship Amendment Bill Will Be Introduced In Parliament
Mumbai: The issue of absenteeism among BJP MPs from Parliament was raised at the parliamentary party meeting on Tuesday, with senior leader Rajnath Singh underlining Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dissatisfaction over lack of their adequate presence at many times. He requested MP’s not to bunk the meetings and he said CAB will be introduced next week.
Singh also asked party MPs to be present in large numbers when Home Minister Amit Shah tables the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, as he asserted that this draft legislation is as important as the move to abrogate Article 370.
Apart from Rajnath Singh minister Prahlad Patel also asked for their presence in the meeting as many important bills are lined up.
Rejecting the opposition’s criticism of the Citizenship Bill, which seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan if they faced religious persecution there, Singh asserted that the BJP has always worked to unite the country and its people.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah last week met and held talks with leaders of political parties, student bodies and civil society groups of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya on the CAB as the development talks.
He also met Chief Ministers of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya Sarbananda Sonowal, Pema Khandu and Conrad Sangma respectively.
The CAB which will be introduced will not affect the tribal areas protected by the Inner Line Permit (ILP) regime and those who are governed under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. This area will be out of the proposed bill.
Woman and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani, in her address, highlighted the efforts of her ministry in fighting malnutrition among pregnant women and infants and said it had organised a record 3.5 lakh events in a month in this regard.
According to the CAB 2019, which is the citizenship act, 1955 will allow granting the nationality to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians, who come to India due to religious persecution in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan even if they don’t possess proper documents.
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