America on CAA: American MP Ben Cardin has expressed concern over the recent implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act-2019 in India. He said that ‘we are worried about Indian Muslims due to the implementation of CAA in the month of Ramadan.’ The American MP said that India should take such a decision on the basis of human rights, regardless of religion.
Actually, American MP Ben Cardin is also the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He has called India’s CAA a controversial law. He said that ‘I am very worried about the implementation of the Indian Citizenship Amendment Act. I am especially worried about the impact this law will have on Indian Muslims.
What did the American MP say?
Ben Cardin said that during the strengthening of US-India relations, it is important that our cooperation is not based on religion but on the basis of human rights. Cardin said that the Muslims of India are very upset due to the implementation of CAA, the worst thing about this is that this law was implemented in the month of Ramadan. There is a need to understand what impact this law will have on the Muslims of India in the future.
Before US Senator Cardin, the US State Department had also given a statement on CAA. During this time too, CAA was criticized, then India strongly reprimanded America and said that America’s statements were unfair on the basis of wrong information. However, during this time America’s HinduPACT and Global Hindu Heritage Foundation supported CAA.
CAA citizenship law
VS Naipaul of Global Hindu Heritage Foundation said that CAA is a law to give citizenship to persecuted minorities in neighboring countries. He said that atrocities are committed against minorities in India’s neighboring countries Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. People who came to India fed up with forced conversion, murder, rape and all kinds of atrocities have now got their rights. The Indian government has also said that this law has nothing to do with Indian Muslims. This is a law to give citizenship to people of Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Parsi religions who have fled from neighboring countries.