New Delhi:

The federal government has rejected america’ “will carefully monitor” touch upon implementation of the Citizenship Modification Act, or CAA, calling the US State Division’s assertion “misplaced, misinformed, and unwarranted”.

“The CAA is about giving citizenship, not about taking away citizenship. It addresses the difficulty of statelessness, supplies human dignity and helps human rights,” the Ministry of Exterior Affairs spokesperson stated this afternoon.

“The Citizenship Modification Act is an inside matter, and is in line with India’s inclusive traditions and long-standing dedication to human rights. The CAA grants secure haven to persecuted minorities belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian communities from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, who’ve entered India on or earlier than December 31 2014.”

“As regards the US State Division’s assertion on the implementation of the CAA, we’re of the view that it’s misplaced, misinformed, and unwarranted,” the ministry spokesperson stated.

Earlier in the present day US State Division spokesperson Matthew Miller was requested if the CAA might have an effect on non secular freedom in India. “We’re involved… we’re carefully monitoring this legislation (and) how it will likely be applied,” Mr Miller responded, including, “Respect for non secular freedom and equal remedy beneath the legislation for all communities are elementary democratic ideas.”

The Centre applied the Citizenship (Modification) Act 2019 on Monday, lowering the qualification interval of utility for citizenship from 11 to five years for eligible migrants who got here to India earlier than December 31, 2014.

The federal government additionally got here out with a press assertion to say that Indian Muslims needn’t fear because the CAA is not going to influence their citizenship and has nothing to do with the neighborhood which enjoys equal rights as their Hindu counterparts.