MUMBAI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday has said that no detention centres would be set up in the state.
According to Mumbai Mirror, Uddhav assured delegations of Muslim legislators and clerics that the detention centre for illegal immigrants will not be set up in Maharashtra under his watch.
Meet with Muslims
While addressing the meeting with the Muslim community, Thackeray said, “Several misunderstandings are being spread about detention camps. That is a system for foreign nationals who have served their sentence for the cases related to drugs or other (offences). These foreign nationals are kept in detention camps during the time till they complete their documentation process for deportation. So, there is no need to… fear about it (detention camps),” reported Indian Express.
After voting in favour of the bill in Lok Sabha, Shiv Sena took a u-turn and staged a walkout during the voting for the amendments to Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 in the Rajya Sabha.
Jagan says no NRC in AP
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy clarified that his government is against National Register of Citizens (NRC) and will not implement it in the state.
Earlier, YSRCP had supported the ruling BJP-led NDA government in passing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Parliament.
10 states oppose CAA-NRC
Like Reddy, many Chief Ministers have shown the same stand on implementing NRC in their state – Mamata Banerjee in Bengal, Nitish Kumar in Bihar, Naveen Patnaik in Odisha, Amarinder Singh in Punjab, Kamal Nath in Madhya Pradesh Ashok Gehlot in Rajasthan and Pinarayi Vijayan in Kerala.
The country is boiling over the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
The NRC, which has been developed with the aim of segregating Indian citizens from illegal migrants, was implemented in Assam.
Recently, the final list of NRC for Assam was published in which 19,06,657 persons were excluded including those who did not submit their claims. Over 14 lakh of those excluded from the final NRC list are Hindus.