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This is an archive article published on January 31, 2024

We won’t allow CAA to be implemented in Tamil Nadu: Chief Minister MK Stalin

The DMK chief was responding to Union minister Shantanu Thakur’s statement that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act will soon be implemented across the country.

Chief Minister MK Stalin. (File Photo)Chief Minister MK Stalin. (File Photo)

Days after Union minister Shantanu Thakur said the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which was cleared by Parliament in 2019, would be implemented in every state within seven days, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin said on Wednesday that he would not allow that to happen.

“I give an assurance; we will not allow CAA to set foot in Tamil Nadu,” Stalin wrote in Tamil on the X social media platform.

The DMK chief also wrote that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, which excludes Sri Lankan Tamils and Muslims, would not have become law if the AIADMK, then a BJP ally, had not voted in its favour.

Addressing a public meeting at Kakdwip in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on January 28, Union minister Shantanu Thakur said, “Just now Ram Temple has been inaugurated. Today, I can guarantee that in the next seven days, not just in West Bengal, but the CAA will be implemented across India. The law will be implemented in every state.”

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Stalin, who is in Spain on an official visit to attract investments, said that despite being in the Opposition, the DMK and its allies held a massive protest against the Act and got two crore signatures sent to the President against the law. After coming to power in 2021, the DMK government passed a resolution in the Assembly demanding the withdrawal of the CAA, he added.

While accusing the BJP of working to destroy communal harmony, he also said that people were watching the AIADMK’s “insidious dramas supporting” the saffron party.

Janardhan Koushik is Deputy Copy Editor of indianexpress.com. He is a New Media journalist with over five years of reporting experience in the industry. He has a keen interest in politics, sports, films, and other civic issues. Janardhan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication from SRM Arts and Science College and a PG Diploma in New Media from Asian College of Journalism, one of the top ranked journalism schools in India. He started his career with India Today group as a sub-editor as part of the sports team in 2016. He has also a wide experience as a script-writer having worked for short-films, pilot films as well as a radio jockey cum show producer while contributing for an online Tamil FM. As a multilingual journalist, he actively tracks the latest development in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry utiling his well-established networks to contribute significantly to breaking news stories. He has also worked as a sports analyst for Star Sports. ... Read More

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