Old video of CJI's son Abhinav Chandrachud speaking on CAA viral
Hindustan TimesAs the Centre notified the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 triggering political backlash, a 2020 video of advocate Abhinav Chandrachud explaining why CAA is unconstitutional is going viral. A 2020 video of advocate Abhinav Chandrachud arguing that CAA is unconstitutional is going viral. When the country was partitioned, two waves of migration took place from West Pakistan to India -- one in 1947 consisting of Hindus and Sikhs, the second was in 1948 which consisted of Muslims and this second wave of return created problems for the Indian administration, Abhinav said explaining that Hindus and Sikhs were given the properties of the Muslims who left India. The CAA will give Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs Christians, Buddhists Jains and Parsis who migrated from neighbouring Muslim-majority countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan, before December 31, 2014.
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