Whether the Shiv Sena leader and minister Aditya Thackeray will be involved in the protests organized against the Citizenship Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) has not yet been confirmed. Its information was given to the party on Saturday. Shiv Sena's communication wing tweeted that there was no confirmation from Aditya Thackeray on whether he would go to the event organized by CAA, the anti-NRC student council.
Along with this, it has been said that the Shiv Sena's official communication team should be contacted regarding their (Aditya) schedule or presence in any program. This statement has come when the picture of an invitation letter is going viral on social media, claiming that he will be present at the event. According to the invitation letter, Aditya will be present at an event in Mumbai along with noted writer Javed Akhtar, activist Umar Khalid, Rama Naga, Rohit Pawar and others.
What is CAA 2019?
The Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 simplifies the citizenship rules for migrants from Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian religions from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Earlier it was mandatory for a person to stay here for at least 11 years to get citizenship of India. By making this rule easier, the period of acquiring citizenship has been changed from one year to 6 years, i.e., people living in India will get citizenship in the last one to six years of the above mentioned six religions of these three countries. In simple words, the rule of granting citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from three Muslim majority neighboring countries of India has been made easier.
