New Delhi: The government has violated several laws with the new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the new law lacks the method to verify whether refugees are persecuted or not, according to Congress.
Addressing the media at the party headquarters on Wednesday, senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that the Act violated the right to equality provided in the Constitution.
Jairam Ramesh had filed a petition before the Supreme Court over the CAA, he said and added, "It lacks a method or a framework on how the government is planning to verify whether refugees are persecuted or not. Also, the Home Minister keeps referring to persecuted minorities, but the Act doesn't mention the term in the same context."
Singhvi said that the Act needed some rules and regulations for implementation. "In this Act there is nothing like this. We have informed the court about it," he said.
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