Presidential Election 2022: Opposition presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Wednesday said that if elected, he will ensure that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is not implemented.
Interacting with opposition MPs from Assam, Sinha said the BJP-led government is yet to implement the CAA as it was made a “foolish draft” in a hurry. “Citizenship is a big issue for Assam, and the government wanted to bring the Act across the country, but has not been able to do so yet,” he said.
“Earlier the government gave the excuse of COVID, but even now they have not been able to implement it because it is a foolishly prepared act in haste,” he said. Sinha alleged that the Constitution was under threat not from any outside force but from those in power. “We have to protect it,” he said.
“If I am in Rashtrapati Bhavan, I will ensure that CAA is not implemented,” he said. Sinha was on a day-long visit to Assam to seek the support of “like-minded” parties for the July 18 elections.
Yashwant Sinha was unanimously nominated as the joint candidate of the opposition parties for the presidential election. The opposition had appealed to the BJP and its allies to support Yashwant Sinha, “so that we can elect a deserving ‘President’ unopposed.”
The announcement was made after Sinha emerged as the unanimous presidential candidate of 13 opposition parties, including Congress, TMC and Samajwadi Party, which met in Delhi on Tuesday. The meeting took place at the Parliament’s annexe and was presided over by NCP chief Sharad Pawar.
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