With the BJP government in the Centre announcing a repeal of the three contentious farm laws, there is a growing chorus of calls to abolish the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). In Assam, the powerful All Assam Students Union (AASU) on Saturday asserted that, like the three farms law, the Central government will have to repeal the “anti-people CAA”. Deccan Chronicle reported that the AASU reiterated that its movement against the “black law” which has been imposed forcefully would continue. “The anti-CAA movement in Assam will also continue till the Act is repealed,” AASU adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya told reporters.
The CAA was notified on December 12, 2019 and came into force with effect from January 10, 2020. After the CAA was passed by Parliament, widespread protests were witnessed in different parts of the country. The CAA is aimed at granting Indian citizenship to persecuted minorities like Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
Prominent Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Friday urged the government to take back the CAA Act. BSP MP from Amroha Kunwar Danish Ali also called for the repeal of the CAA "without further delay". "Repealing the three farm laws is a welcome move. I congratulate farmers for their will power to fight, sacrifice and defeat the mighty state power and their crony capitalist friends," Ali tweeted. Prime Minister Modi must also reconsider and repeal CAA "without further delay", he added. Jamiat president Maulana Arshad Madani welcomed the announcement of withdrawal of the three farm laws and lauded the farmers for their "success".
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said: "I appeal to PM Modi, BJP to repeal CAA like farm laws because it is against the Constitution. If they will make NPR and NRC law, then we will take to streets and another Shaheen Bagh will come up here," he said at Barabanki, reported news agency ANI.
-Inputs from PTI
