Over 50 percent of people believe that the Narendra Modi government has taken the right decision to implement the Citizenship Amendments Act (CAA) to give Indian Citizenship to persecuted religious minorities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan who are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, or Christians, according to the ABP-C Voter Modi 2.0 Report Card.
The ABP-C Voter survey found that 53.3 percent of people believe that the Modi government has taken the right decision to implement CAA, while 21.8 percent of respondents said that no, it was a wrong decision.
About 24.9 percent of respondents didn’t say anything about the Modi government’s decision to implement the CAA.
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The survey found that the Modi government’s decision has more support in urban areas rather than rural areas. The survey revealed that about 64.8 percent of respondents in urban areas supported the decision to implement the CAA while 48.3 percent of respondents in rural areas hold the same view.
In urban areas, 19.7 percent of respondents did not support the new amendments in the Citizenship Law while 22.7 percent in rural parts of the country opposed the new amendments.
About 15.5 percent of respondents in urban areas and 29 percent in rural areas were not in support or against the amendments in citizenship law to persecuted religious minorities from neighboring countries who arrived in India before 2014.
The survey was carried out between May 23 and May 27 on 12,070 people across the country.
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The Country had witnessed massive protests against the CAA after it was passed by the parliament in 2019.
SOURCE-IANS
