{"id":8276,"date":"2020-01-27T07:15:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T01:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=8276"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:09:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:39:14","slug":"over-600-european-union-lawmakers-move-anti-caa-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/over-600-european-union-lawmakers-move-anti-caa-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 600 European Union lawmakers move anti-CAA resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government is facing major embarrassment internationally over the Citizenship Amendment Act and people\u2019s protests against it across the country.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 626 of the 751 members of the European Union parliament have moved six resolutions on the CAA and the clampdown on Jammu and Kashmir, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/caa-matter-entirely-internal-to-india-say-government-sources-as-625-eu-lawmakers-table-resolutions-o-2170045?pfrom=home-topscroll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">reported by NDTV<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to visit Brussels for the India-EU summit in March, and ahead of the meeting, such a resolution is being seen as a huge embarrassment. An NDTV report quoted government sources saying that the citizenship law was a matter \u201centirely internal to India\u201d and a move that had been achieved \u201cthrough democratic means\u201d after a debate in both houses of the Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats with 154 members, the European People\u2019s Party (Christian Democrats) with 182 members, European United Left and Nordic Green Left with 41 members, Green\/European Free Alliance with 75 members, Conservatives and Reformists with 66 members and the Renew Europe Group with 108 members have moved the resolutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matter internal to India, a government official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":8226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[220,57,69,221,92],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation","8":"tag-anti-caa-protests","9":"tag-bjp","10":"tag-caa","11":"tag-european-union","12":"tag-narendra-modi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=8276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}