Team Clarion
NEW DELHI – Amid massive protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and concerns over National Register for Citizenships (NRC), All Imam Organisation said some Muslims clerics, intellectuals and lawmakers will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah very soon.
“A delegation of Muslim clerics, academicians, intellectuals, lawmakers and Madarsa proctors will meet Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon,” All Imam Organisation Chief Dr. Imam Umer Ahmed Ilyasi was quoted by the news agency ANI.
Ilyasi said that the delegation will appraise the Prime Minister and Home Minister about their concerns over the CAA and NRC.
Political parties, different organizations, and institutions have organized protests against the controversial citizenship act and NRC across the country. Massive protests were held across the country after the new citizenship law which discriminates against Muslims was passed in Parliament.
Chief Imam also urged the protestors to protest peacfully.
“I would like to make an appeal to all the citizens of this country that peace must continue. Staging a protest is our democratic right. We must protest, but peacefully,” Ilyasi said.
Violence had erupted during some protests against the citizenship act across the country.
The new citizenship law grants citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists, and Christians from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh who came to India on or before December 31, 2014. The law excludes Muslims.
