CAA Binding on All : Ravi Shankar Prasad

Thiruvananthapuram: Hours after the Kerala Assembly passed a resolution demanding scrapping of the Citizenship Amendment Act, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asserted that the law was binding on the entire country and was “perfectly legal” and “constitutional”.

He said only Parliament has exclusive powers to pass any law with regard to subjects under the seventh schedule and not any assembly.

“It is only Parliament which has got the powers to pass any law with regard to citizenship; not any assembly, including the Kerala Assembly,” he told news men here.

On the assembly resolution, Prasad hit out at the state government, saying that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan should seek better legal advice.

“This law is binding on the entire country. CAA is not related to any Indian Muslim, much less to any Indian citizen. He added.