All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday asked the Central government to withdraw the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and threatened with protests if the demand is not met.
Owaisi said that the AIMIM will take to streets to Uttar Pradesh demanding a repeal of the CAA or else they will make another Shaheen Bagh in the state.
While addressing a public meeting in Barabunki, he said, “I demand from the Bharatiya Janata Party government to repeal the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).”
Owaisi said that the Centre should consider repealing CAA in the same manner in which the three farm laws have been repealed.
“If the government makes the law on the National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) then we will hit the streets again, we will make Shaheen bagh here too. I myself would come here,” he added.
“The farmers do not trust the government, they say that when the Parliament starts and the bill is introduced, then we will decide,” he said.
The demand has come days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the Centre would repeal the three contentious farm laws amid fierce protests against it.
Ahead of the next year’s Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) announced that it will contest elections on 100 seats out of the 403 assembly seats. The party said it is in talks with other parties as well to form an alliance.
Previously, in the 2017 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party bagged 312 seats out of the 403-seat Uttar Pradesh Assembly while Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged 47 seats, Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) won 19 and Congress could manage to win only seven seats. The rest of the seats were bagged by other candidates.
