Modi govt's contradiction on CAA
| | | | | | | An “internal matter of India” in which “no foreign party has any locus standi”—this is how the Narendra Modi government’s external affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar framed India’s public response to an intervention application filed in the Supreme Court by Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in connection with the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act on Tuesday.
This response was in keeping with the Modi government’s officially stated position that the CAA is purely an “internal matter” of India.
However, barely a day before this strongly-worded public statement was issued, an official in another ministry of the Modi government denied an application filed by this reporter under the right to information act to peruse files relating to the drafting of the CAA law by claiming that the files are related to “policy on grant of citizenship to foreigner nationals” and “disclosure of such information may prejudicially affect relation with foreign states”. |
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