Anti-CAA Stir: BSP Delegation To Meet President Kovind To Request Withdrawal Of Citizenship Act

The BSP’s parliamentary party under its national president, will meet the President of India at 10:30 am to lodge protest against the new law of the Central government.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati . (PTI)

New Delhi:  A Bahujan Samaj Party delegation met with President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday over Citizenship Amendment Act and the violence that followed over the issue. The delegation, led by Satish Chandra Mishra, National Secretary of the BSP and parliamentary party leader Danish Ali, gave a memorandum to the President. The BSP leaders requested for a judicial inquiry into the violence that took place on Sunday at Jamia Millia Islamia. The delegation also urged to withdraw the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act. They alleged that the Bill, recently enacted by Parliament, is against the Constitution of India and its Article 14 and 21. "BSP's parliamentary party has also sought time to meet the President (Ram Nath Kovind). Our party will also raise our voices in the Uttar Pradesh assembly, against CAA 2019, and crimes against women," the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said. The statement from Mayawati comes in the wake of protests in several parts of the country over against the CAA, which was approved by Parliament in its recently concluded winter session and later given assent by the President. The CAA 2019 seeks to grant Indian citizenship to refugees from Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsi communities fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh and who entered India on or before December 31, 2014.