Mangaluru, Dec 17: Former Minister and Mangaluru MLA U T Khader today issued a stern warning to the B S Yediyurappa-led Karnataka government against implementing the Centre’s contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019.
The statement comes hours after Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai declared that the government would take necessary steps to implement the Act in the state.
Mr Khader was addressing a protest meet organised by the Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee in the city to denounce the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Act.
Mr Khader said that CAA is apparently ill-intentioned, communal and anti-constitutional Act and hence all the citizens of India irrespective of religion, caste and creed should stand up against it.
“CAA should never be implemented in any part of India. I heard that Karnataka government is very eager to implement it. If it did so, then the entire state will burn,” he warned.
Youth Congress leader Mithun Rai, addressing the protest, said that the intention behind the CAA is to divide county on the basis of religion. “We, the people of India, should never let the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led union government to divide the nation,” he said.
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