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Banerjee said that the implementation of the CAA is directly related to the implementation of the National Citizenship Register (NRC) in the country. She claimed that Muslim immigrants who are already citizens of India will be declared illegal and will be disadvantaged under the NRC. 

The Ministry of Home Affairs also said "no Indian citizen would be asked to produce any document to prove his citizenship after this Act".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said that the government has "fulfilled its guarantee by issuing the notification of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)". The government notified the rules of the Citizenship Amendment Act on March 11, 2024 weeks ahead of General Elections in which Prime Minister Modi is seeking a third consecutive term.  "CAA has been implemented across India," BJP wrote on social media. 

The Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) has been a subject of contention and debate in India since its inception in December 2019.

Narendra Modi government in New Delhi Monday implemented the amended Citizenship Amendment Act, popularly known as CAA, even as around 200 Hindu and Sikh families currently staying abroad want to return back to Afghanistan.

Union Minister Smriti Irani said in a post on X, "11th March 2024: A Historic Day as CAA becomes a Reality with Modi Ki Guarantee!" Irani said the day will go down in history, adding the CAA was envisioned by the Modi government to ensure Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who have faced persecution in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh due to their religious beliefs and arrived in India before December 31, 2014.

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) could notify the CAA rules any time before the model code of conduct is implemented.

The CAA, enacted in 2019, seeks to grant Indian citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim immigrants, including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan who entered India before December 31, 2014.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a programme here, Thakur, the Union Minister of State for Shipping and Ports, said, "CAA is the demand of the country... any opposition to the issue (of rolling out CAA) does not matter (to Centre)." "It has been our promise and we never go back on our words.

Speaking at a public distribution programme at Raiganj in Uttar Dinajpur district, Mamata Banerjee alleged that the BJP "opportunistically raised" the issue of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA ahead of the upcoming elections.