The BJP on Wednesday responded to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s criticism of the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Citizenship Amendment Act does not deprive any Indian of their citizenship, but gives citizenship to those who are persecuted based on their faith.

The BJP leader said Kejriwal’s peculiar statement came that outsiders will take away jobs due to the CAA. He asked what kind of logic is this? He said the people who will come to India are those who are persecuted on the basis of their religion. He asked is it not India’s moral duty and constitutional and cultural right to provide them with legal means of citizenship protection?

Prasad talking to the media said everybody should be assured that nobody’s jobs will be taken away. He said he wanted to stop those who are trying to spread communal tension in the name of CAA. He asked Kejriwal to stop spreading lies. He further added that parties from Kerala and Tamil Nadu should stop spreading hatred.

The Central government on Monday gave notification for the rules for the implementation of the CAA, 4 years after the law was passed by the Parliament in 2019. This law gives fast track citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh who came to India before December 31, 2014.

Earlier today the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal attacked the Modi government over implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act and called it dirty vote bank politics aimed at taking away jobs which are meant for Indian youth. The AAP leader added if those people are brought to India and selectively settled in constituencies where the BJP government is politically weak, the vote bank of the BJP will rise. He added this increase in vote bank will give BJP a big political advantage in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday made a scathing attack on Modi government over the implementation of Citizenship Ammendment Act (CAA). He said the BJP is playing dirty vote bank politics which is aimed at taking away jobs which are meant for the Indian youth. Kejriwal said if those people who are brought to India and and settled in different constituencies where the BJP is politically weak then the vote bank of the BJP will increase. He said this will give a political advantage to the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

The Delhi chief minister was addressing a press conference in New Delhi and said the Modi goverrnment instead of finding solutions to unemployment and inflation is talking about CAA. He added under the CAA minority communities from  Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh will be given Indian citizenship.

He said this means these people will be brought to our country in large numbers and will also be given jobs and houses. Kejriwal further added that the Modi government is not able to give jobs to youth of India but will give employment to people from Pakistan. He said instead of giving jobs  and spending money on the people of India the BJP is spending money on the settlement of people from other countries.

The Central government on Monday gave notification on the implementation of CAA, 4 years after the parliament passed the law in 2019. This law fast tracks citizenship for undocumented non-muslim migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. While talking to the media Kejriwal said people should express their anger by voting against the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.The Delhi Chief minister said the CAA is designed so that the vote bank of BJP can be strengthened in select constituencies. He said the cutoff date of 2014 will be extended in the future.

The Congress has realsed a second list of 43 candidates for upcoming Lok Sabha elections today. Among them are prominent GenNext leaders like Nakul Nath, son of Kamal Nath, Vaibhav Gehlot, son of Ashok Gehlot, and Gaurav Gogoi, the son of former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, are included.

Vaibhav Gehlot, who will contest from Jalore, was defeated by Gajendra Singh Shekhawat in the 2019 Jodhput election.

In addition, Harish Meena, the former chief of police for the state, will contest from Tonk-Sawai Madhopur. Rahul Kaswa, who crossed over from the BJp, will contest from Churu and Brijendra Ola from Jhunjhunu.

KC Venugopal on Tuesday announced the  names and said they have already announced their first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. Today, they are going to announce the second list. Yesterday, CEC met and cleared the list of around 43 names from Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, he added.

In this list, out of the 43 candidates, 10 are General candidates, 13 OBC candidates, 10 SC candidates, 9 ST candidates and 1 Muslim candidate, said KC Venugopal.

Meanwhile, in January, Nakul Nath, the current Member of Parliament for Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, unilaterally announced that he would contest from his family’s stronghold.

Reports surfaced a few days after he made remarks suggesting that he and his father, Kamal Nath, were about to leave the Congress party. There was speculation that they were in talks with the BJP.

A confidante of Kamal Nath has stated they were insulted in the party. However, later, the two denied the rumors.

The 2019 general elections saw Vaibhav Gehlot, the son of former chief minister Ashok Gehlot, contest but he was unsuccessful. He lost to BJP’s Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.