<p>Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao joined the league of non-BJP chief ministers in the country, making his opposition to the implementation of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act public.</p>.<p>On Saturday, KCR, as Rao is popular, said that his government would move a “resolution in the state assembly to oppose the discriminatory law.”</p>.<p>KCR’s statements come on a day Rajasthan, ruled by the Congress, passed a resolution asking the Narendra Modi government to revoke the CAA. Such resolutions were earlier passed by two other non-BJP states – Kerala and Punjab. In West Bengal, the Mamata Banerjee government is reportedly moving such a resolution next week.</p>.<p>KCR who said he spoke to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and others over the matter said he intends to convene a conclave of CMs soon in Hyderabad on this issue, to discuss their plan of action.</p>.<p>"We supported Article 370 abrogation in national interest but I told home minister Amit Shah that we, an out and out secular party, cannot support a prejudiced law,” Rao told reporters, after TRS party’s victory in the state’s municipal polls.</p>.<p>The TRS had voted against the CAB in Parliament.</p>.<p>“By conviction, we do not support CAA, which is 100 percent a wrong law, a wrong thinking on part of the central government. I appeal to the Prime Minister Modi to rethink on CAA,” Rao said adding – “It is a law the courts should strike off.”</p>.<p>“Are Muslims not our people, why discriminate? Why cannot we live together,” questioned KCR, terming the CAA, NRC as diversional tactics of the BJP from burning issues. “Economy is struggling; millions have lost their jobs.”</p>.<p>Flanked by his son Telangana’s IT, industries minister K T Rama Rao, who returned from the World Economic Forum meet at Davos, KCR cited the remarks of US investor George Soros, which were censorial of Modi government “nationalist” policies.</p>.<p>“Such acts are not good for the country and its image abroad. Lakhs of Indians work in the Gulf; what if the authorities there ask us get out?” Rao said.</p>.<p>While Modi government has stated its unrelenting position on CAA, two Congress leaders and former union ministers – Shashi Tharoor and Kapil Sibal – opined that the states’ resolutions and opposition as inconsequential in the matter.</p>.<p>“It is more of a political gesture. Citizenship is conferred by the central government. States cannot say they would not implement CAA,” Tharoor reportedly said.</p>
<p>Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao joined the league of non-BJP chief ministers in the country, making his opposition to the implementation of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act public.</p>.<p>On Saturday, KCR, as Rao is popular, said that his government would move a “resolution in the state assembly to oppose the discriminatory law.”</p>.<p>KCR’s statements come on a day Rajasthan, ruled by the Congress, passed a resolution asking the Narendra Modi government to revoke the CAA. Such resolutions were earlier passed by two other non-BJP states – Kerala and Punjab. In West Bengal, the Mamata Banerjee government is reportedly moving such a resolution next week.</p>.<p>KCR who said he spoke to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and others over the matter said he intends to convene a conclave of CMs soon in Hyderabad on this issue, to discuss their plan of action.</p>.<p>"We supported Article 370 abrogation in national interest but I told home minister Amit Shah that we, an out and out secular party, cannot support a prejudiced law,” Rao told reporters, after TRS party’s victory in the state’s municipal polls.</p>.<p>The TRS had voted against the CAB in Parliament.</p>.<p>“By conviction, we do not support CAA, which is 100 percent a wrong law, a wrong thinking on part of the central government. I appeal to the Prime Minister Modi to rethink on CAA,” Rao said adding – “It is a law the courts should strike off.”</p>.<p>“Are Muslims not our people, why discriminate? Why cannot we live together,” questioned KCR, terming the CAA, NRC as diversional tactics of the BJP from burning issues. “Economy is struggling; millions have lost their jobs.”</p>.<p>Flanked by his son Telangana’s IT, industries minister K T Rama Rao, who returned from the World Economic Forum meet at Davos, KCR cited the remarks of US investor George Soros, which were censorial of Modi government “nationalist” policies.</p>.<p>“Such acts are not good for the country and its image abroad. Lakhs of Indians work in the Gulf; what if the authorities there ask us get out?” Rao said.</p>.<p>While Modi government has stated its unrelenting position on CAA, two Congress leaders and former union ministers – Shashi Tharoor and Kapil Sibal – opined that the states’ resolutions and opposition as inconsequential in the matter.</p>.<p>“It is more of a political gesture. Citizenship is conferred by the central government. States cannot say they would not implement CAA,” Tharoor reportedly said.</p>