ISLAMABAD – India faces a big embarassing blow on diplomatic front overcontroversial citizenship law against Muslims.
Six major political groups of the 27-member European Parliament, estimatedto hold 620 members of the 751 member-body, have tabled a resolutioncondemning the Indian Citizenship Act 2019 and urged India to repeal thecontroversial law deemed discriminatory towards Muslims and otherminorities.
The resolution also expressed concern that besides the CAA, the IndianGovernment’s push for a nationwide citizenship verification process,commonly known as the NRC, aims to strip Muslims of their citizenshiprights while protecting those of Hindus and other non-Muslims.
The resolution also condemns the violence and systematic brutality beingcarried out by the Indian authorities against those who are protestingagainst CAA.
The resolution calls on the Indian authorities to end such policies.
The resolution regrets that a religious criterion has become the basis ofIndia’s naturalization and refugee process. The resolution predicts thatthe CAA will create the largest statelessness crisis in the world and leadto immense human suffering.
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The resolution adds that UN has expressed concerns regarding the CAA andthe violence that has followed its implementation. And that the UnitedNations High Commission for Human Rights has held that the CAA is‘fundamentally discriminatory in nature’.
The resolution by the six political groups of the EU Parliament will betabled on Wednesday.
The resolution will be jointly tabled by Group of the European People’sParty (Christian Democrats) (PPE), Group of the Progressive Alliance ofSocialists and Democrats (S&D), Renew Europe Group (Renew), Group of theGreens/European Free Alliance (Verts/ALE), Group of the European UnitedLeft – Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) and European Conservatives andReformists Group (ECR).
