Amit Shah's Car Number Plate With 'CAA' Goes Viral

As Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived at the BJP headquarters on Thursday for the BJP's Central Election Committee (CEC), what caught the netizens' attention was his car's number plate.

Well, Shah was spotted in a car bearing the number 'DL1C AA 4421'. It comes at a time when the Home Minister is expected to announce the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 regulations before the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections comes into effect.

The BJP-led NDA government aims to provide Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants, including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians, from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan who arrived in India before December 31, 2014, under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

"The CAA is a law of the country and its notification will definitely be issued. It will be issued before the polls. The CAA will be implemented before the elections. No one should have any confusion about it," Shah had earlier said at the ET NOW Global Business Summit 2024.

He said granting Indian citizenship to persecuted minorities of the neighbouring countries was a promise of the Congress leadership too.

"When the Partition happened - Hindus, Buddhists, Christians - all wanted to come to India after facing religious persecution there. They (Congress leaders) had promised to give citizenship to these people saying all of you are welcome. But the (Congress) leaders went back on their word," Shah said.

The Home Minister had claimed that the CAA CAA is not a law to snatch anyone's citizenship. "Our Muslim brothers are being instigated on the issue of CAA. CAA can't snatch anyone's citizenship as the law does not have that provision. CAA has been enacted to give citizenship to those people who have come from Bangladesh and Pakistan after facing religious persecution. No one should oppose this law," he said.

It may be recalled that the country had witnessed massive protests in some parts of the country after the CAA was passed by Parliament in December 2019 and got the presidential assent.

Implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) requires the formulation of essential rules, which have been delayed by over four years.