Shah, who is on a two-day visit to Bengal, yesterday said Trinamool Congress was fooling the people by suggesting that CAA will not be implemented. Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that the Citizenship Amendment Act will be implemented in Bengal once the Covid pandemic blows over.

Shah, who is on a two-day visit to Bengal, said Trinamool Congress was fooling the people by suggesting that CAA will not be implemented. He said ‘‘I am telling you that after corona we will implement the Act. CAA was a reality, is a reality and will remain one. Nothing has changed,".

CAA was Passed by Parliament in 2019.The CAA allows non-Muslim minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan — Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian — to acquire Indian citizenship in order to escape persecution in their native countries. Under the Act, people from these communities who came to India before December 31, 2014, will not be treated as illegal immigrants but given Indian citizenship. West Bengal was one of the states that passed a resolution against the CAA.

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