elangana Assembly may pass resolution against CAA: CM

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday said the state assembly may pass a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act like some other states did recently.

Rao said he has already spoken to many of his counterparts in other states and he may convene a conclave of regional parties and Chief Ministers here to oppose the CAA since it concerns the country's future.

The TRS is secular by its policy and nature and it had opposed the CAA, he told reporters here.

The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi had voted against the amendment to citizenship law in Parliament last month.

"I have already spoken to many Chief Ministers on this. I spoke to leaders of other parties also.

Probably, maybe, in the next one month, I may arrange a conclave of regional parties and CMs in Hyderabad to oppose this....100 per cent. Because, this concerns the future of the country. This is not good for India, where 130 crore (people) live," Rao said.

After Kerala and Punjab, Rajasthan became the third state to pass a resolution against the CAA on Saturday.

Rao said that the Centre had taken a wrong decision to implement CAA as the Constitution provides fundamental rights to all people,irrespective of religions, castes and creed.

As such, keeping Muslims outside the purview of the Act itself pained him, he said.

Rao said he had made it clear to Home Minister Amit Shah that his party would not support (the CAA) when the latter had called him up.

However, his party had supported the government on Article 370 as Kashmir was an issue concerning national integrity.

Citing a newspaper report which said India is being converted into a Hindu state under the leadership of Modi", he said the country should not be of a one religion state and that such a "branding" was not good for the country.

"...will definitely discuss the matter in the budget session and pass a resolution in the assembly against it