Kamal Haasan questions Centre's motive on CAB, wonders if it is a vote garnering exercise
Chennai/IBNS: Actor turned Makkal Needhi Maiam founder Kamal Haasan has raised questions on the Centre's motive on CAB (Citizenship Amendment Bill) and said if it had been benevolent, Sri Lankan Tamils and Muslims had been included in the Bill.
In a tweet, Haasan wondered why the Centre overlooked the Muslims in Sri Lanka who had been facing discrimination and Tamils who had been subjected to systematic genocide in that country.
The actor-turned-politician questioned if the CAB was a vote garnering exercise as it considered only a section of people facing persecution in the neighbouring countries.
Why are Tamils who are subjected to a methodic genocide and Muslims facing discrimination, be excluded from the bill? If it’s a genuinely benevolent bill and not a vote garnering exercise, then why won’t this CAB stop to pick up stranded Tamils & troubled Muslims of Srilanka?
— Kamal Haasan (@ikamalhaasan) December 10, 2019
The proposed Citizenship Amendment Bill provides people Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities, who took refuge in India after fleeing Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan by December 31, 2014 due to religious persecution, will not be treated as illegal immigrants and given Indian citizenship.
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