An American senator has expressed concern over the Indian authorities notifying guidelines for the implementation of the CAA, saying that because the US-India relationship deepens, it will be significant that the cooperation relies on shared values of defending human rights of all, no matter faith.

India carried out the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 final week, paving the way in which for the grant of citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who got here to India earlier than December 31, 2014.

The authorities additionally got here out with a press assertion to say that Indian Muslims needn’t fear because the CAA won’t influence their citizenship and has nothing to do with the neighborhood which enjoys equal rights as Hindus.

“I am deeply concerned by the Indian government’s decision to notify its controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, particularly the law’s potential ramifications on India’s Muslim community. Making matters worse is the fact that it is being pushed during the holy month of Ramadan,” Senator Ben Cardin, chairman of the highly effective Senate Foreign Relations Committee, mentioned in an announcement.

“As the US-India relationship deepens, it is critically important that our cooperation is based on our shared values of protecting the human rights of all persons, regardless of religion,” he mentioned.

Last week, the US State Department had expressed concern over the notifying of the CAA and mentioned that respect for non secular freedom and equal therapy below the regulation for all communities are elementary democratic ideas.

India had sharply rebuked the US State Department for its criticism of the CAA and mentioned it’s “misinformed and unwarranted.” In separate statements, the Hindu Policy Research and Advocacy Collective (HinduPACT) and the Global Hindu Heritage Foundation supported the CAA.

The laws supplies expedited citizenship to persecuted Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain and Parsi minorities from India’s neighbouring nations. It underscores India’s dedication to safeguarding people and households towards non secular persecution, resonating with world humanitarian ideas, they mentioned.

“The CAA does not impact any citizen of India. The characterisation of this law as being non-secular is unfounded. Hindu minority is discriminated against and decimated in India’s neighbourhood. As Americans, we are disappointed that instead of standing for American values and the human rights of the persecuted, our government has chosen to oppose this humanitarian effort,” mentioned Ajay Shah, founder and co-convenor of HinduPACT.

Deepti Mahajan, co-convenor of HinduPACT, mentioned it’s stunning to see the dearth of empathy in direction of the plight of little ladies from Hindu, Sikh and Christian minority communities in Pakistan.

“According to the UN Human Rights Commission, BBC and APPG reports, on average, 1,000 girls a year, as little as 10 years old, get abducted, converted, and become victims of sex slavery and forced marriages in Pakistan. Instead of calling out the government of Pakistan for its complicity in this ongoing heartbreaking act, the State Department seeks to criticise the Government of India’s effort to help these innocent victims,” she mentioned.

The Global Hindu Heritage Foundation’s V S Naipaul mentioned, “The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 addresses the plight of minorities, who are facing brutalities, persecution, forced conversion, murders, rapes, and all kinds of atrocities in our neighbouring Islamic countries, where the idea of secularism, peace and humanity just cannot survive.”

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