After four years, CAA implemented: What changes and what doesn’t?
Four years after it was passed in Parliament, the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 has been notified. The Centre has clarified that the CAA doesn’t change anything for existing Indian citizens People celebrate after the central government notified the rules for implementation of the Citizenship Act, 2019, in Bhopal on Monday. The CAA rules also provide separate application for people belonging to these sub-categories — a person of Indian origin, a person who is married to an Indian citizen, minor child of an Indian citizen, a person having Indian parents, a person who or either of his parents was a citizen of independent India, a person who is registered as an Overseas Citizen of India cardholder and a person seeking citizenship by naturalisation. The home minister also clarified the same, and said that the CAA was being used as a bogeyman by the Opposition, especially West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. Kerala’s Pinaray Vijayan described the CAA as a communally divisive law and asserted that it will not be implemented in the southern state, while the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal alleged that the Centre’s move is against the country and that it was “dirty politics” of the BJP to make poor people from neighbouring countries its vote bank in India.
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