The contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) will be repealed in the first session of Parliament if the INDIA bloc comes to power, senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram has said.
Talking to reporters here on Sunday, the former Union Finance Minister vehemently refuted the charge that the Congress’s election manifesto was silent on the CAA. “I’m the chairman of the manifesto committee. I wrote every word of it. I know what we intend to do. The CAA will be repealed. Not amended, (it) will be repealed. We’ve made it clear. We’ve no doubt at all in our minds — and I want you also not to have any doubt — that the CAA will be repealed in the first session of Parliament in which the INDIA bloc forms the government,” he said.
It may be recalled that in Kerala, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had slammed the Congress manifesto for being conspicuously silent on the CAA.
