Lucknow University moots idea to include CAA in political science syllabus

The proposal to include CAA as one of the political science papers would have to pass through a series of approvals

Lucknow University (LU) has proposed to introduce Citizenship Amendment Act as a topic for its political science students. LU has floated the idea to introduce the topic as a part of the syllabus of Contemporary Issues in Indian politics paper.

“CAA is a current issue, and as we teach our students about Indian constitution and Indian politics, we must also discuss this contemporary political issue as well,” LU political science head of department (HoD) Shashi Shukla told Business Standard.

She observed that when the erstwhile contemporary issues of ‘mandal’ (reservations) and ‘kamandal’ (temple) had been discussed in the past, then