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All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday moved the Supreme Court seeking to stay the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019.
Owaisi's petition argues that the government should not entertain or process any applications for citizenship status under Section 6B of the Citizenship Act, 1955, as amended by the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, during the ongoing proceedings.
Owaisi argues that the law by the Modi government is against the constitution. “This law made by the Modi government four years ago is against the constitution. You cannot make laws on the basis of religion. There are several Supreme Court judgments on this. CAA is against the Right to Equality,” he has said.
The Citizenship Amendment Act, which was passed by Parliament in December 2019, saw its rules issued by the Union government earlier this week on Monday.
The law aims to expedite citizenship for minority refugees who faced religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan and arrived in India on or before December 31, 2014.