CAA: Oppn leader wants private resolution
A delegation of Opposition DMK MLAs on Thursday submitted a letter seeking to move a private resolution in the Tamil Nadu Assembly urging the Centre to withdraw the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), terming it as Unconstitutional and aimed at creating religious divide among the people.
By : migrator
Update: 2020-01-02 19:03 GMT
Chennai
The letter was written by DMK president and Leader of the Opposition M K Stalin and it was handed over to Assembly Secretary K Srinivasan at the State Secretariat. In the letter, he urged him to relax Assembly Rule 172 and permit Stalin to move the resolution, which said the CAA enacted by the Centre was Unconstitutional and has totally ignored the Eelam Tamils living in several Refugee camps in the State and also Muslims. It said the CAA had been witnessing protests across the nation.
‘’In continuance of this, the Centre has been attempting to roll out of the National Register of Citizens and the National Population Register’,’ it said.
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