Seattle City Council becomes first US legislative body to pass anti-CAA, NRC resolution; supporters says law ‘meant to disenfranchise several million Muslims’
A coalition of Seattle-area South Asians celebrated the passage of Seattle City Council Resolution 31926 on 3 February, opposing India’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), after hundreds of people rallied and attended a midday City Council vote to express their support. The resolution, introduced by Council member Kshama Sawant, affirmed Seattle as a welcoming city, and expressed City Council’s solidarity with Seattle’s South Asian community regardless of religion and caste.
“We welcome the Seattle City Council’s resolution denouncing the divisive and draconian CAA and NRC. These acts are unconstitutional and designed to disenfranchise several million Muslim, Dalits and other minorities in order to create a fascist state.” said Javed Sikander, spokesperson for the Seattle chapter of the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC).
Seattle City Council became the first legislative body in the United States to take a stance on India’s CAA and NRC, which have created turmoil in India since the CAA passed in December 2019.… “Seattle is leading the moral consensus in the global outcry against the CAA. When genocidal campaigns begin, one important intervention is international condemnation, and the Seattle community feels a deep sense of solidarity with their elected, as the time to stand against the Indian government’s Islamophobic policies is now,” said Thenmozhi Soundarajan, Executive Director of Equality Labs.…
SEE ALSO:
- This village in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar is India’s first to pass resolution against CAA, NRC (Feb 3, 2020, Pune Mirror)
https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/articleshow/73891662.cms - Chhattisgarh to be 5th state to bring CAA resolution (Jan 30, 2020, Times of India)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/73750790.cms - West Bengal Passes Anti-CAA Resolution, Becomes 4th State To Do So (Jan 27, 2020, Outlook)
https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-west-bengal-govt-moves-anti-caa-resolution-in-assembly-becomes-4th-state-to-do-so/346319 - Telangana Assembly will pass resolution against CAA: KCR (Jan 26, 2020, India Today)
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/telangana-assembly-will-pass-resolution-against-caa-kcr-1640195-2020-01-26
