January 1, 2020 2:14 PM

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Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says CAA is not against any citizen of country

<span style="color: #222222;">Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has asserted that the   Citizenship Amendment Act was binding on the entire country and was perfectly legal and constitutional.<br />''<br />''Speaking to media persons in Thiruvananthapuram yesterday after the Kerala Assembly passed a resolution demanding scrapping of the Act, the Minister added that only Parliament has got the powers to pass any law with regard to citizenship; not any Assembly, including the Kerala Assembly.<br />''<br />''CAA is not against any citizen of the country.<br />''<br />''It only relates to six persecuted minority communities of three countries–Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.</span><br />

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