CPI to work out common strategy with Left parties on CAB: D

Voicing its opposition to nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB), the CPI on Sunday said it would work out a common strategy along with other left parties on the CAB.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, is set to be introduced by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Parliament on Monday.

"NRC is Assam-specific and it should not be extended to the rest of the country," CPI General Secretary D Raja told reporters, briefing on his party's two-day National Executive meeting that concluded here.

It favoured an appropriate judicial body to decide on the appeals, as foreigners' tribunals in that state (Assam) were inadequate, he alleged.

The CPI is opposed to CAB as citizenship in the country was not based on religion, he said.

CAB seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan escaping religious persecution there.

"This government is trying to push through this legislation to use it as a weapon to polarize people, to communalize the situation