France, a founding member of the European Union, considers the new citizenship law an internal political matter of India, French diplomatic sources said here on Monday. The assertion came after six resolutions were moved against the CAA. Making France’s position clear, sources said the CAA is India’s internal political matter and it has been stated on several occasions.
They said the European Parliament is an institution independent of member states and the European Commission. There has been no reaction from the Ministry of External Affairs on the resolutions against the CAA in European Parliament. Official sources, however, maintained that the CAA was an entirely internal matter of India and that the legislation was adopted through democratic means after a debate in both houses of Parliament. “Every society that fashions a pathway to naturalisation contemplates both a context and criteria. This is not discrimination,” a government source said, explaining why India is opposed to the resolutions at the EU parliament.