By Sahil Pandey Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Congress leader and former Union Minister Chidambaram on Sunday said that if the India Bloc comes to power at the Centre, it will repeal the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the three criminal laws brought in . "We will repeal, amend and review the following sets of laws" by the BJP government - CAA 2019 tops the list. Farmers' Production, Trade and Commerce Promotion O Facilitation Act 2020, Indian Penal Code (Second) Code which is equivalent to the IPC, the Indian The Civil Protection Code which is the CrPC and the Indian Evidence (II) Act which is the Evidence Act," Chidambaram said while replying to a question from ANI at a press conference here. "All five will be completely repealed. Then we have eight laws which will be repealed and new laws will be made.Then we have 25 laws, which will be amended and brought at par with the Constitution. So we are absolutely clear that the Citizenship Amendment Act will be repealed,” said Chidambaram, who was the Union Home Minister from 2008 to 2012 under the UPA government. She also rejected CPI(M) leaders' allegation that Congress leaders were silent on the CAA, "Shashi Tharoor has spoken widely against the CAA and it was widely reported that Priyanka Gandhi said that We oppose the CAA," said Chidambaram, who is the chairman of the Congress' manifesto committee. Recently, at an election rally, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan alleged that the Congress and Rahul Gandhi were silent on the CAA, which reflects the same mindset of the Sangh Parivar. It reflects. He further alleged that the Kerala unit of the Congress, which had initially joined the Left Front to protest against the CAA, withdrew from it on the instructions of its national leadership, citing the "harm" in the Congress manifesto for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Under the section "Reparations" it said, "We promise that all anti-people laws passed by BJP/ND without proper parliamentary scrutiny and debate, especially on issues related to workers, farmers, criminal justice, environment and forests and digital "Laws relating to data protection will be thoroughly reviewed and changed." The CAA grants citizenship to undocumented immigrants belonging to six non-Muslim communities – Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian – from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who entered India on or before December 31, 2014. and reduces the period to qualify for citizenship.One of the major criticisms of the CAA, from five years to the existing 11 years, is that it sets the criteria for religion for granting Indian citizenship, hence it weakens the secular character of the Indian Constitution.