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Former Assam Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Tarun Gogoi on Monday said that before passing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 or CAA, the Modi government didn’t take states in confidence.”India is a union of states and you (Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government) must respect the states. Prime Minister Modi is talking about ‘Team India’ and to follow that you have to take everybody into confidence. Mere passing a law is not enough,” Tarun Gogoi said. The Congress leader claimed that had states were consulted on the process, they would not have boycotted the law or said that they won’t implement it.
The former Assam Chief Minister further said that there was no need for CAA to give shelter to some people on humanitarian grounds. Tarun Gogoi claimed that there were no cases of religious persecution in Bangladesh and ‘Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent statement has proved it’.The former Assam Chief Minister said that during his 15-year tenure as the chief minister of Assam, not a single application came from someone requesting asylum on the basis on religious persecution in Bangladesh.
Recently, Assam Finance minister and convenor of the BJP-led North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) Himanta Biswa Sarma said that it was not possible for the applicants to provide proof of religious persecution under the new citizenship act. Supporting the Kerala government’s decision to not implement CAA, the former Assam chief minister said, “We also want that Assam government request the Centre to repeal it. But we don’t have any majority in Assam.”
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