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‘Process of giving citizenship under CAA will begin this month,’ says Amit Shah | Latest News India

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Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that the first citizenship will be issued under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA before the last phase of the election. Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah.(PTI) “Applications have started to come in. Scrutiny is happening according to the rules,” Shah told News18 in an interview. “And I think before the elections, before the last phase, the process of giving citizenship will start.” Follow full coverage of the Lok Sabha elections. Unlock exclusive access to the latest news on India’s general elections, only on the HT App. Download Now! Download Now! The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government in March implemented the CAA, which paves the way for citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who entered India before December 31, 2014. The development came four years after Parliament passed the law in December 2019. The notification of the Act triggered criticism from Opposition leaders, who claimed that the notified rules were “unconstitutional”, “discriminatory” and violative of the “secular principle of citizenship” enshrined …

Today in Politics: Modi in Bastar and Maharashtra, Shah in Arunachal; Rahul to kickstart Congress campaign in MP | Political Pulse News

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday will address a rally in Bastar in Chhattisgarh on Monday, a BJP leader said. The rally will be held in Aamabal village in Bhanpuri in Bastar Lok Sabha constituency, which will go to polls on April 19, Anurag Agarwal, the Chhattisgarh BJP’s media co-in charge said on Sunday. The PM will also participate in a public meeting in Chandrapur of Maharashtra as a part of the party’s plan to hold two rallies in each of the state’s five regions. According to the state BJP unit, the PM will hold rallies in those constituencies where it expects a tough fight. BJP minister Sudhir Mungantiwar has been fielded in Chandrapur and will take on the Congress’s Pratibha Dhanorkar, the Balu Dhanorkar who passed away in May 2023. Chandrapur was the only seat in the state that the Congress won in the 209 Lok Sabha elections. “With elections spread out in five phases, we have enough time to convene rallies of both central and state leaders. In seats which come under difficult …

Amit Shah calls for education in mother tongue, says it will increase students’ ability to think, reason, analyse

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah said a person is able to have original thinking only when the subject to ponder over is taught in his mother tongue. File | Photo Credit: PTI Education imparted to a student in his mother tongue as provided under the new National Education Policy (NEP) will increase his ability to think, reason, analyse and research, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday. Addressing a gathering at the 95th anniversary of Sheth G C High School at Vijapur, Mr. Shah said work was underway to translate into regional languages the syllabi of technical, medical and higher education courses, and added that the NEP will make India number one country in the next 25 years. Also Read | India’s obsession with English has limited scope of development: Amit Shah Under the British education policy for pre-Independent India, rote learning was a sign of intelligence, he said, adding that students did not have the power to think, research, reason, analyse, decide and understand, which created many issues in the society. “The new …

Shah says battle against drugs delicately poised, asks States to join hands

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah said ₹97,000 crore worth of drugs were destroyed between 2014 and 2022. | Photo Credit: PTI Union Home Minister Amit Shah on December 21 said the battle against drugs was delicately poised and urged States to fight the menace together with the Central government, keeping aside politics. Responding to a short-duration discussion in the Lok Sabha on the drug-abuse problem in the country and steps taken by the government to control it, Mr. Shah said the Modi government has zero tolerance policy towards drugs and vowed to put behind bars drug traders, howsoever big, in the next two years. “We have mapped the drug network across the States. No matter how big the criminal is, in the next two years there will be a situation that they will be behind bars,” Mr. Shah said. Also Read | Over tenfold increase in poll-related contraband in Gujarat: Election Commission He said the issue of drug menace is a serious one as profits from this trade are also used to finance acts of …