#CAARules: I am not questioning the imperfections or otherwise of their democracy or their principles or lack of it. I am questioning their understanding of our history – S Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister

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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has boldly addressed criticism on the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and questioned the global understanding of historical events, adding that the government has an obligation to the people who were let down at the time of partition.

“I am not questioning the imperfections or otherwise of their democracy or their principles or lack of it. I am questioning their understanding of our history. If you hear many comments from many parts of the world, it is as though the partition of India has never happened. And there were no consequential problems which the CAA is supposed to address,” he said.

“If you take a problem, remove all the historical context from it, sanitize it and make it into a political correctness argument and say, I have principles and don’t you have principles. I have principles too and one of my principles is obligation to who were let down at the time of partition,” he added.

EAM firmly defended the implementation of CAA and slammed the critics to reevaluate their own policies before accusing India of introducing policies on the basis of some faiths.