Film actor and politician Kamal Haasan has criticized the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 (CAB 2019) introduced in the Rajya Sabha by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday. Kamal Haasan said that this bill is like surgery for a healthy man.
Kamal Haasan told news agency ANI, "We have a duty to amend the Constitution if there was any error, but to attempt to amend a flawless Constitution is a betrayal. Centre's law and plan is akin to a crime of attempting surgery on a healthy person. Those who attempted and failed are trying again".
He also tweeted, "Kamal Haasan: Why are Tamils who are subjected to a methodic genocide and Muslims facing discrimination, be excluded from the bill? If it’s a genuinely benevolent bill and not a vote garnering exercise, then why won’t this CAB stop to pick up stranded Tamils & troubled Muslims of Srilanka?"
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday introduced the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019, which got a recommendation in the House. Amit Shah has introduced this bill in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, which is being debated in the upper house.