‘No foreign party has any locus standi on issues pertaining to India’s sovereignty,’ Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, Raveesh Kumar said

The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is an internal matter, India said on Tuesday after the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) filed an intervention application in the Supreme Court.

“The Citizenship Amendment Act is an internal matter of India and concerns the sovereign right of the Indian Parliament to make laws. We strongly believe that no foreign party has any locus standi on issues pertaining to India’s sovereignty,” said official Spokesperson Ministry of External Affairs Raveesh Kumar.

India is clear that the “CAA is constitutionally valid and complies with all requirements of our constitutional values,” Kumar said in a press statement issued here.

“It is reflective of our long standing national commitment in respect of human rights issues arising from the tragedy of the Partition of India,” the Official Spokesperson maintained.

On Monday evening, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights had informed India’s Permanent Mission in Geneva that her Office had filed an intervention application in the Supreme Court of India in respect to the 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Pointing out that India was a democratic country governed by the rule of law, Kumar expressed confidence that the government’s sound and legally sustainable position would be vindicated by the Supreme Court.