HYDERABAD: Further hardening its stand against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the Telangana State Cabinet on Sunday demanded that the Centre repeal the Act immediately.
The decision comes as a reply to Opposition BJP’s taunts to TRS as to why it was remaining silent on the CAA after opposing it in the Parliament.
This was done in an attempt to expose what BJP sees as a dichotomy in the TRS policy on the Central legislation.
To take the war into the enemy’s camp, the State Cabinet also decided to adopt a resolution in the forthcoming budget session of the State Assembly on the lines of four non-BJP-ruled States that have passed similar resolutions for the repeal of the CAA.
The TS Cabinet meeting, which was held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao at Pragathi Bhavan, appealed to the BJP government not to discriminate against the people on the basis of religion for according citizenship.
“The State Cabinet appealed to the Union Government, not to discriminate on the basis of religion for according Indian citizenship. It requested that all religions must be treated as equal before the law,” according to an official release from the Chief Minister’s Office issued late on Sunday night.