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Over the issues of Shias and Ahmadiyas claiming persecution in Islamic nations, Salve stated that addressing governance problems in neighbouring nations are not the purpose of the CAB.
Speaking with Times Now’s Rahul Shivshankar, the senior lawyer explained that the communities named in the CAB are the minorities in the three neighbouring nations, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. He added further that the CAB is a narrow-tailored law specifically meant for religiously persecuted minorities in the 3 specified countries.
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‘CAB is not anti-Muslim and doesn’t violate Art 14, 15 or even 21 of the Constitution,’ India’s leading legal mind Harish Salve opines on Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) on India Upfront with Rahul Shivshankar. | #CABProtest
Harish Salve explained further that the CAB aims to provide the persecuted minorities in these 3 countries a special status in the naturalisation process and it does not mean in any way that other communities or people will not be naturalised at all, for other communities the rules of general asylum process will be followed. So there is no violation of Article 14 here.
Prasanta Patnaik