'NRC, CAA are different', 'CAA law will never be taken back': Top quotes from Amit Shah's interview

Amit Shah

In an interview with the news agency ANI, Home Minister Amit Shah spoke about the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Register of Citizens (NRC), and slammed the Opposition's remarks on CAA, among other things.

Here are his top quotes:

On NRC and CAA being different - "The NRC has nothing to do with the CAA."

On the Act being a 'sovereign right' - "CAA law will never be taken back. It is our sovereign right to ensure Indian citizenship in our country, we will never compromise on it," Shah said in an interview with news agency ANI on March 14, two days after CAA rules were notified.

On West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's opposition to CAA - "The day is not far when BJP will come to power there (West Bengal) and will stop infiltration. If you do this kind of politics and with such an important national security issue, you allow infiltration by doing appeasement politics and oppose the refugees from getting citizenship, then people will not be with you. Mamata Banerjee does not know the difference between a person taking refuge and an infiltrator..," Shah said.

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Responding to Opposition's remarks on CAA - "The opposition has no other work, they even said that there was a political benefit in surgical strikes and air strikes, so should we not take action against terrorism?"

On Delhi CM Kejriwal's comment on CAA - 'If he is so concerned, then why doesn't he talk about Bangladeshi infiltrators or oppose the Rohingyas? He is doing vote bank politics... He has forgotten the background of partition and should meet the refugee families."

On Owaisi's anti-Muslim remark- "What is his logic? There cannot be religious oppression of Muslims because Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are declared Islamic states…There is no provision for NRC in this law. There is no provision in this law to take anyone’s citizenship."