This is an archive article published on January 31, 2024
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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.
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.
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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.
ஏழு நாட்களில் மேற்கு வங்கம் மட்டுமல்லாது இந்தியா முழுவதும் #CAA நடைமுறைப்படுத்தப்படும் என்று கூறியிருக்கிறார் பா.ஜ.க.வைச் சேர்ந்த ஒன்றிய இணையமைச்சர் ஒருவர்.
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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.”
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.
Chief Minister MK Stalin. (File Photo) 
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