Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday said the CAA was against the secular fabric of the country and compared it with the "ethnic and religious cleansing of Hitler's Germany".
"What happened in Germany under Hitler in 1930 is happening in India now. Germans did not speak then, and they regretted it, but we have to speak now so that we do not regret later," Amarinder Singh said in the Punjab Assembly during a discussion on the resolution.
Pointing to the omission of Muslims and such other communities as Jews from the ambit of citizenship under the CAA, the resolution asked for a repeal of the Act "to avoid any discrimination on the basis of religion in granting citizenship and to ensure equality before law for all religious groups in India", according to a release by the CMO Punjab.
"Why have Muslims been excluded? And why have they not included Jews in the CAA?" pointing out that Punjab had a Jew Governor, General Jacob, who also fought for the nation in the 1971 war, the release added.
As per to the official release, Amarinder Singh urged the Opposition, particularly the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), "to read Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to understand the dangers of CAA.
Amarinder Singh said that he would get the book translated and distributed so that all could read and grasp the "historical mistakes that Hitler made."