Urmila Matondkar on CAA: This will be recorded as a black law in history

The Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) created a huge uproar in the nation. The majority of the Indians were against the bill but on December 11, 2019, the bill was passed by the Parliament of India and now it is called the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). As per the Act, only Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian religious minorities, who had fled persecution from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan before December 2014 will be provided Indian citizenship except for the Muslims.

Now, actress Urmila Matondkar has compared CAA to the Rowlatt Act of the British period. Recently, there was an on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 72nd death anniversary at Gandhi Bhavan memorial in Pune. It was at the event, Urmila said, “After the end of the Second World War in 1919, the British knew that unrest was spreading in India and that may rise after the Second World War was over. So, they brought a law commonly known as the Rowlatt Act. That 1919 law and the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 will be recorded as black laws in history.”

She also said that Gandhiji was the leader of the whole world, not of any country. Urmila further said that the man who killed Mahatma Gandhi was neither a Muslim nor a Sikh. He was a Hindu.

#WATCH Urmila Matondkar:After end of WW II in 1919, British knew unrest was spreading in India&that may rise after war was over. So, they brought a law commonly known as Rowlatt Act. That 1919 law&Citizenship (Amendment)Act of 2019 will be recorded as black laws in history(30.1) https://t.co/tIoLS2HTh7 pic.twitter.com/rmmnb52Kk4

— ANI (@ANI) January 31, 2020

For the unversed, talking about the Rowlatt Act, the British government passed the infamous Act which gave enormous powers to the police to arrest any person without any reason. The main purpose of the Act was to curb the nationalist. Gandhi did Satyagraha against such Act.

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