K. Jayakumar, working president of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee, on Monday deplored the statement of AIADMK Rajya Sabha member S.R. Balasubramoniyan on his party’s stand on the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) [which has since become an Act].
Describing Mr. Balasubramoniyan’s defence of his party’s stand as a “matter of shame”, Dr. Jayakumar, who is also the Tiruvallur MP, said that the former, despite being “against the legislation”, voted in favour of the Bill to “please the Modi-Shah regime” at the Centre.
“It is ridiculous for a senior politician of his [Mr. Balasubramoniyan’s] standing in State and Central politics to say that he followed the dictum of a Deputy Secretary from the Secretariat who ordered him to vote in favour of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, which he religiously obeyed,” he added.
