Aurangabad: In a major twist to the tale, The BJP-ruled Selu Municipal Council in Parbhani district of Maharashtra has unanimously passed a resolution against the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). This indeed is a different move as the body has gone against its own party.
The council chairman Vinod Borade said Monday that the Nagar Parishad has 27 councillors including three co-opted members. “The resolution against CAA and NRC was passed by majority without any opposition February 28,” Borade informed. He said local public representatives were also in favour of such move.
Borade said he had summoned a meeting two days before the resolution was passed, as demanded by the members of the NCP, the Congress and seven councillors from the Muslim community.
The CAA, which was passed by Parliament in December last year, grants Indian citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who had settled in India before December 31, 2014.
The new citizenship law has triggered protests in many parts of the country since then despite the repeated claims made by the ruling BJP that it will not take away anybody’s citizenship.
Agencies