The resolution, moved earlier this week by the 154-member S&D Group of Members of European Parliament from 24 countries, is expected to be taken up next week during the plenary. In moving the resolution in the European Parliament, the sponsors cited various international treaties and the Indian Constitution to underscore that the CAA ran counter to them all. But its sponsorship by the second-largest collective in the European Parliament suggests that India’s domestic policies continue to remain under sustained scrutiny since August when the Modi government changed the constitutional and geographical contours of Jammu and Kashmir. Across the Atlantic, in the US too, the CAA has been taken note of, not just by members of Congress but also the state department. The CAA, she told reporters, “is undergoing I would say a vigorous democratic scrutiny, whether it’s in the streets, by the political opposition, media and the courts.

Source: The Telegraph January 25, 2020 20:26 UTC