States can't say no to CAA: Congress's Hooda

January 20, 2020 11:00

Even as Congress-ruled states like Madhya Pradesh and Chhattishgarh are set to pass a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act, following the footsteps of Punjab, senior Congress leader, and former Haryana CM, Bhupinder Singh Hooda opined that a state cannot deny the implementation of the CAA.

Bhupinder Singh Hooda said, "Once a law or Act is passed by Parliament, I think that the constitutional view is that, any state cant and should not say no but this has to be legally examined."

Earlier, senior Congress leader and former Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal said that a state cannot deny the implementation of the CAA when it is already passed by Parliament.

He, however, added that state assembly is empowered with the constitutional right to pass a resolution and ask the central government to withdraw the CAA.

If the Supreme Court passes a verdict declaring the CAA as constitutional, it will become problematic for the state to oppose its implementation, Sibal has added.

-- ANI

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