The state government's refusal to enforce the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) may even lead to the President's Rule, says constitutional expert and former advocate general Shreehari Aney, adding that it was compulsory for all states to have the existing law, which was amended recently, implemented in letter and spirit.

The CAB has received brickbats from the states run by the BJP opponents, including Maharashtra where three parties, the Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress, have taken a strong anti-CAB stand. Many states have said they will not implement it and the Congress has demanded that the Shiv Sena-led state government too should refuse the amended law. Sena had supported the Bill in Lok Sabha but abstained from voting in Rajya Sabha because the Union government had not answered its questions on the issue.