US, UN express concern about CAA

New Delhi, NT Bureau: The United States and the United Nations on Tuesday expressed concerns about the notification of the rules under the Citizenship Amendment Act, reports Reuters.

The Citizenship Amendment Act is aimed to provide a fast track to citizenship to refugees from six minority religious communities, except Muslims, from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan, on the condition that they have lived in India for six years and have entered the country by December 31, 2014.

On Monday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that with the rules being notified, the Narendra Modi-led government has “realised the promise of the makers of our constitution to the Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians living in those countries”.

A spokesperson of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told Reuters that the organisation is concerned that the Citizenship Amendment Act “is fundamentally discriminatory in nature.''