A day after the Union Government notified the rules to implement the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) filed an application seeking stay of the Citizenship Amendment Rules 2024, it’s leaders said to Maktoob.
“We will fight against this unconstitutional and discriminatory law legally and politically,” IUML senior leader and Lok Sabha MP E.T Muhammed Basheer said to Maktoob on Monday, hours after Union government notification.
IUML who is the lead petitioner in the batch of writ petitions pending in the Supreme Court challenging the CAA, filed an interlocutory application in the pending writ petition seeking an immediate stay of the implementation of the CAA, Live Law reported.
Muslim League argued that since the Act has linked citizenship to religion and has introduced a classification solely on the basis of religion, it is “prima facie unconstitutional” and ought to be stayed by the Supreme Court.
“Since the CAA discriminates on the basis of religion, it strikes at the root of the concept of secularism, which is the basic structure of Constitution. Therefore, one way of looking at implementation of the act would be to make it religion neutral and give citizenship to all migrants irrespective of their religious status,” read the petition.
IUML also sought an order directing the Union government that, in the meanwhile, pending adjudication of the Writ Petition, members of any religion or denomination, who have been excluded on account of his / her religion(s), from the purview of the CAA, may not be subjected to any coercive action under the Citizenship Act, 1955, Passport Act, 1920, Foreigners Act, 1946.
It also sought an order not to take coercive action against persons belonging to the Muslim community who have been deprived of the benefit to apply for citizenship under the Rules pending adjudication of the Writ Petition or direct the Respondent Union to provisionally permit persons belonging to Muslim community also to apply for citizenship and submit a report on their entitlement, Live Law reported.
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