‘CAA to be implemented across India in 7 days’: Union Minister’s big ‘guarantee’

Union Minister Shantanu Thakur has claimed that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) would be implemented across India within the next seven days.

“I can guarantee that in the next seven days, not just in West Bengal, but the CAA will be implemented across India,” Thakur said in Bengali while addressing a public gathering in Kakdwip in South 24 Parganas in Bengal.

Shantanu Thakur, BJP’s Lok Sabha MP from Bangaon, Bengal, reiterated Union Home Minister Amit Shah in his CAA statement.

In December last year, Amit Shah asserted that the BJP-headed central government would implement the CAA and “no one can stop it”. His remarks were targeted at Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has been staunchly opposed to the CAA.

During his speech at a big rally at Kolkata’s iconic Esplanade, Amit Shah had also launched scathing attacks against Mamata Banerjee on the issues of infiltration, corruption, political violence, and appeasement and urged people to dethrone her government from Bengal and elect BJP in the 2026 Assembly elections.

He had also given a clarification on the intended beneficiaries, saying they have as much right to citizenship as anyone else.

Soon after its passing in both Houses of Parliament and receiving the President’s assent in 2019, the CAA has been at the forefront of massive protests all over India and the Opposition’s strong stand against it. It has been in a state of limbo as the Centre is yet to frame rules for the CAA and implement the law.