DMK general secretary and Minister for Water Resources, Duraimurugan, on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, said that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act would not have become a law if the AIADMK had voted against the Bill when it was tabled before the Rajya Sabha in 2019.
Speaking to journalists after inaugurating a cooperative-run petrol pump in Katpadi, Mr. Duraimurugan said that it was the AIADMK that voted in favour of the Bill in December 2019, in the Upper House, after it was duly passed by the Lok Sabha. “If they [AIADMK] had voted against it then, the Bill would not become an Act now,” he said.
Mr. Duraimurugan was responding to a query on former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK general secretary, Edappadi K. Palaniswami’s opposition to the Act after the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on March 11, notified the Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024 that would enable the implementation of the CAA.
