NEW DELHI: Congress on Tuesday said it was “unwarranted interference” on the part of the UN high commissioner for Human Rights to file an application in the Supreme Court against the Citizenship Amendment Act but asserted that the government had itself to blame for “this mess”.

Senior Congress member Ahmed Patel said, “No doubt that UN’s intervening application is a case of unwarranted interference in our matters. But who is to blame for this mess? The government of India for creating a window for such interference by enacting a law which breaches global standards on human rights”.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor described the development as “unprecedented and extreme step” by the UN body.

“This is an unprecedented step and arguably an extreme one for a UN body to take. But then India was a respected upholder of human rights in the past so no UN agency would have needed to consider doing such a thing,” Tharoor tweeted.

