All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said he petitioned the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the recently notified rules of the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Mr. Owaisi, who represents Hyderabad in the Lok Sabha, had moved the apex court earlier, but the Centre had then informed the court that the rules were yet to be framed.
Speaking to media persons at party headquarters in Darussalam, Mr. Owaisi said: “Now that the Modi government has notified and framed the rules, it was a matter of urgency to approach the Supreme Court. If this government begins to give citizenship on the basis of an unconstitutional law that is steeped in religion, it could lead to problems... An SC-monitored NRC [National Register of Citizens] happened in Assam, where 19 lakh people’s names were not there [on the list]. Out of this, around 1 lakh were Muslims, and the rest were non-Muslims. If you give citizenship under this law to those who are not Muslim, then it will be a massive injustice [towards Muslims].”
