If nobody is going to get affected by CAA then why government passed it: Chidambaram

New Delhi : Former Finance Minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday targeted the government and posted a question that why they have passed the CAA law when nobody is going to get affected by it?

Taking a pot shot at the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Chidambaram said in a tweet, "Home Minister says that no one belonging to the minorities will be affected by CAA. If that is correct, then he should tell the country who will be affected by CAA. If nobody will be affected by CAA, as it stands at present, then why did the government pass the law?"

He also questioned why Muslims were excluded from the list of minorities mentioned in the CAA.

"If the CAA is intended to benefit all minorities (no one will be affected says the HM), then why were Muslims excluded from the list of minorities mentioned in the Act?," Chidambaram said in another tweet.

The CAA grants citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Parsi, Buddhist, and Christian refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh who came to India on or before December 31, 2014.