In the name of a majority
5 years ago

In the name of a majority

The Hindu  

The Citizenship Bill, passed in both Houses this week, promises to give the protection of citizenship to non-Muslims who fled to India to escape religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. In 2003, the insertion of the category ‘illegal migrants’ in the provision of citizenship by birth became the hinge from which the NRC and the CAB later emerged. Exempting minority groups The second strand emerging from the 2003 amendment has taken the form of the CAB, which exempts ‘minority communities’, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, and Christians, from three countries — Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan — from the category of ‘illegal migrants’. The CAB brings the citizenship law in line with exemptions already made in the Passport Act 1920 and Foreigners Act 1946 through executive orders in September 2015 and July 2016. Immediately after Partition, ‘displaced persons’ constituted an administrative category, and citizenship files of 1950s tell us how district officials expedited their citizenship in the process of preparation of electoral rolls.

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Modi loses ground in India’s parliament, but his Hindu nationalist policies are here to stay
7 months ago

Modi loses ground in India’s parliament, but his Hindu nationalist policies are here to stay

LA Times  

Muslims protest outside Srinagar in Kashmir in 2019, when India’s Hindu nationalist government stripped the Muslim-majority region of its semiautonomous status. That decision now seems to be irreversible, with India’s top court upholding the move, ruling in December that the region’s special status had been a “temporary provision.” The Supreme Court said the government had promised to restore Jammu-Kashmir’s statehood …

Perverse intent: The Hindu Editorial on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act
9 months ago

Perverse intent: The Hindu Editorial on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act

The Hindu  

Offering citizenship to migrants who have fled their countries of origin because of persecution and have stayed a sufficient time in their adopted country, is a humane endeavour by any nation-state and should be generally welcomed. But by limiting this measure only to migrants from an arbitrary group of neighbouring nations and to narrow the definition only to “religious persecution”, …

Uncovering the origins of CAA and its implications for India
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Uncovering the origins of CAA and its implications for India

Hindustan Times  

On March 11, the Government of India formally notified the rules implementing the 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act. The notification of the CAA rules—on the eve of India’s 2024 general election—has kicked off a fresh debate over the law, its implementing provisions, and the resulting implications for the future of secularism in India The notification of the CAA rules—on the eve …

Asaduddin Owaisi knocks Supreme Court’s door to ‘stay’ implementation of CAA
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Asaduddin Owaisi knocks Supreme Court’s door to ‘stay’ implementation of CAA

Live Mint  

Lok Sabha MP and AIMIM chief, Asaduddin Owaisi said on Saturday approached the Supreme Court seeking to stay the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 and the Rules, 2024. As reported by ANI, Owaisi said, “No applications seeking grant of citizenship status be entertained or processed by the government under Section 6B of the Citizenship Act,1955 Act, 2019) during …

India’s new citizenship law excludes Muslims. Here’s what to know
9 months, 3 weeks ago

India’s new citizenship law excludes Muslims. Here’s what to know

LA Times  

Students in Guwahati, India, protest against implementation of a controversial citizenship law widely criticized for excluding Muslims. India has implemented a citizenship law that excludes migrants who are Muslims, a minority community whose concerns have heightened under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government. Critics argue that the law is further evidence that Modi’s government is trying to reshape the …

Vantage | What is CAA and why it is controversial
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Vantage | What is CAA and why it is controversial

Firstpost  

The Citizenship Amendment Act stands at the intersection of politics, law and societal values in India BJP leader Manoranjan Kalia celebrates with migrants from Pakistan after the central government notified the rules for implementation of the Citizenship Act, 2019, in Jalandhar, on 12 March, 2024. The CAA mandates migrants to provide evidence of their country of origin, religion, date of …

What is the Citizenship Amendment Act in India and why is it controversial?
9 months, 4 weeks ago

What is the Citizenship Amendment Act in India and why is it controversial?

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy India has implemented a controversial …

India's new citizenship law excludes Muslims. Here's what to know
9 months, 4 weeks ago

India's new citizenship law excludes Muslims. Here's what to know

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI — India has implemented a citizenship law that excludes Muslims, a minority community whose concerns have heightened under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government. Critics argue that the law is further evidence that Modi’s government is trying to reshape the country into a Hindu state and marginalize Muslims. It also amends the old law, which prevents illegal …

India’s new citizenship law excludes Muslims. Here’s what to know
9 months, 4 weeks ago

India’s new citizenship law excludes Muslims. Here’s what to know

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — India has implemented a citizenship law that excludes migrants who are Muslims, a minority community whose concerns have heightened under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government. It also amends the old law, which prevents illegal migrants from becoming Indian citizens, and marks the first time that India — an officially secular state with a religiously diverse …

India announces steps to implement a citizenship law that excludes Muslims
9 months, 4 weeks ago

India announces steps to implement a citizenship law that excludes Muslims

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on Monday announced rules to implement a 2019 citizenship law that excludes Muslims, weeks before the Hindu nationalist leader seeks a third term in office. The law was approved by Indian Parliament in 2019, but Modi’s government had held off with its implementation after deadly protests broke out in capital New Delhi …

India notifies citizenship law for minority refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan
9 months, 4 weeks ago

India notifies citizenship law for minority refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan

Firstpost  

The CAA was passed in December 2019 and subsequently got the president’s assent but there were protests in several parts of the country against it The Prime Minister Modi-led BJP government on Monday notified the Citizenship Amendment Act rules. The Ministry of Home Affairs in a statement on X, formerly Twitter, said, “Ministry of Home Affairs will be notifying today, …

India implements ‘anti-Muslim’ 2019 citizenship law weeks before election
9 months, 4 weeks ago

India implements ‘anti-Muslim’ 2019 citizenship law weeks before election

Al Jazeera  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government announces rules to implement the controversial law, weeks before he seeks a rare third term in vote due by May. The Indian government has announced rules to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act, weeks before Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a rare third term for his Hindu nationalist government. The controversial law passed in 2019 by …

India announces steps to implement a citizenship law that excludes Muslims
9 months, 4 weeks ago

India announces steps to implement a citizenship law that excludes Muslims

LA Times  

Indian demonstrators protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act in New Delhi in 2019. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on Monday announced rules to implement a 2019 citizenship law that excludes Muslims, weeks before the Hindu nationalist leader seeks a third term in office. The law was approved by the Indian Parliament in 2019, but Modi’s government had held off with …

Political Storm Over Religious Conversions: Does India Need a National Law? - News18
1 year, 6 months ago

Political Storm Over Religious Conversions: Does India Need a National Law? - News18

News 18  

The possible repeal of the Karnataka Freedom of Religion Act, 2021, enacted under the Basavaraj Bommai-led BJP government has created a political storm. Amid the sharp political narrative between the Congress and BJP, the intricate issue of religious conversions in India has never found the serious attention it deserves. The absence of empirical data or any study on religious conversions, …

Treat our people as refugees: Myanmar’s democracy leader urges Government of India
2 years, 1 month ago

Treat our people as refugees: Myanmar’s democracy leader urges Government of India

The Hindu  

People of Myanmar entering Indian States of Mizoram and Manipur should be treated like other international refugees as they are fleeing from a military crackdown launched by the Junta government at home, a leading figure belonging to the democratic movement of Myanmar has told The Hindu. Speaking over telephone from an undisclosed location, the leader said that Myanmar has faced …

Citizenship Amendment Act will not help us: Bangladesh Hindu leader
2 years, 7 months ago

Citizenship Amendment Act will not help us: Bangladesh Hindu leader

The Hindu  

A leading member of the Hindu community of Bangladesh has said that the Citizenship Amendment Act of India will not help them deal with the challenges ahead. Interacting with a visiting team of Indian journalists on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, Monindra Kumar Nath, President, Mohanagar Sarbojoneen Puja Committee said that the community’s real aim is to have a minority affairs …

CAA: MHA Invites Indian Citizenship Applications from Non-Muslim Refugees from Afghan, Pak, B'desh
3 years, 7 months ago

CAA: MHA Invites Indian Citizenship Applications from Non-Muslim Refugees from Afghan, Pak, B'desh

News 18  

The Centre on Friday invited non-Muslims like Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists belonging to Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan and residing in 13 districts in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Punjab to apply for Indian citizenship. The Union home ministry issued a notification in this effect for immediate implementation of the order under the Citizenship Act 1955 and Rules framed under …

Frightening Parallels: NRC-Excluded in Assam and Rohingya Refugees
4 years, 10 months ago

Frightening Parallels: NRC-Excluded in Assam and Rohingya Refugees

The Quint  

On 22 December 2019, Mohammed Sanaullah, a retired army officer settled down in front of his television in his ancestral home in Kalahikash village, 60 kilometres from Guwahati, the capital of the state of Assam in north-eastern India. The family had tuned in to watch the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, address an election rally in Delhi, speaking for the …

What Indians Abroad Want to Say to Modi-Shah Amidst Delhi Violence
4 years, 10 months ago

What Indians Abroad Want to Say to Modi-Shah Amidst Delhi Violence

The Quint  

The BJP government’s ambitions under Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, to alter the country's social fabric, has not only divided the country but also lifted the veil, showcasing a dangerous communal agenda of transforming a secular India into a ‘Hindu rashtra’. Late to the party, the international community is now starting to recognise the grave and impending …

U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom to hold hearing on citizenship laws next week
4 years, 10 months ago

U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom to hold hearing on citizenship laws next week

The Hindu  

February 25, 2020 02:36 pm | Updated 02:37 pm IST - Washington A U.S. commission on international religious freedom will hold a hearing next week on how citizenship laws in countries like India and Myanmar are leveraged to deny the religious minorities legal protection, making them vulnerable to exploitation, discrimination and mass atrocities. The announcement of the U.S. Commission on …

What exactly do CAA provisions say?
4 years, 11 months ago

What exactly do CAA provisions say?

India TV News  

The Citizenship Amendment Act aims to fast-track citizenship for six persecuted minority communities -- Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians -- who arrived in India on or before December 31, 2014 from Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The contentious law, an amendment to the Citizenship Act, 1955, came into force on January 10 when the Ministry of Home Affairs …

Citizenship Amendment Act: Pinarayi Vijayan assails attempt to ‘racially purify Hindustan’
5 years ago

Citizenship Amendment Act: Pinarayi Vijayan assails attempt to ‘racially purify Hindustan’

The Hindu  

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday assailed the RSS, the BJP’s ideological mentor, for seeking to “racially purify Hindustan” by introducing prejudicial laws aimed at incrementally ridding the country of religious, ethnic and linguistic minorities or reducing such groups to subaltern status. Speaking in the Assembly on the resolution seeking scrapping of the Centre’s amended citizenship law, Mr. Vijayan …

Opposition creating ‘fear among Muslims' over CAA for vote bank politics, says Goa CM Pramod Sawant
5 years ago

Opposition creating ‘fear among Muslims' over CAA for vote bank politics, says Goa CM Pramod Sawant

Firstpost  

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday said the opposition was creating an illusion about the Citizenship Amendment Act for vote bank politics Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday said the opposition was creating an “illusion” about the Citizenship Amendment Act for “vote bank politics”. Hitting out at those against the Act, Sawant, in a series of tweets, …

Why India’s citizenship law crosses the line (opinion)
5 years ago

Why India’s citizenship law crosses the line (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Akanksha Singh is a journalist based in Mumbai, India. CNN — Across India, people are protesting the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act, after the bill was passed in both the country’s upper and lower houses of Parliament. The CAA grants fast-tracked citizenship to undocumented migrants from the “Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian community from Afghanistan, …

A Debate Drifting Off-Course? Analysing The Narratives Against The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019
5 years ago

A Debate Drifting Off-Course? Analysing The Narratives Against The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019

Live Law  

The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 amended the Citizenship Act, 1955 to provide fast-tracked citizenship to Hindus, Christians, Jains, Sikhs, Parsis and Buddhists fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The CAA provides citizenship for only those Hindus, Christians, Jains, Sikhs, Parsis and Buddhists who are fleeing religious persecution from Afghanistan, Pakistan or Bangladesh. To this end, the Passport Amendment …

Citizenship Amendment Act gives no parameters to measure religious persecution; political will needed to mitigate fear among Assamese
5 years ago

Citizenship Amendment Act gives no parameters to measure religious persecution; political will needed to mitigate fear among Assamese

Firstpost  

When the Act says that the persecuted minorities will be given citizenship, it makes one wonder how the level of persecution would be measured. The Assam Accord, signed on 15 August 1985, included the promise by the Central government that it would ensure “constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards…to protect, preserve and promote the cultural, social, linguistic identity and heritage of …

Churches on Christmas oppose Act which gives Indian citizenship to persecuted Christians in neighbouring Islamic countries
5 years ago

Churches on Christmas oppose Act which gives Indian citizenship to persecuted Christians in neighbouring Islamic countries

Op India  

Churches in Kerala, Kolkata, Telangana and Assam gave sermon calls to people on Christmas-eve and morning mass to oppose the Citizenship Amendment Act. The Citizenship Amendment Act looks at giving citizenship to persecuted religions minorities, including Christians, from the neighbouring three Islamic nations, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who have taken refuge in India prior to 31st December, 2014. “The perpetrators …

‘People dying’: Malaysia’s Mahathir slams India’s citizenship law
5 years ago

‘People dying’: Malaysia’s Mahathir slams India’s citizenship law

Al Jazeera  

Amid protests in India, Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad questions ‘necessity’ of new citizenship law seen as anti-Muslim. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has criticised India’s new citizenship law, which is seen as discriminatory against Muslims and has sparked deadly protests across the South Asian country. #KLSummit2019: #Malaysia PM Mahathir questions India's new citizenship law, which is seen as anti-Muslim “People …

Citizenship Amendment Act: No threat to any Indian Muslim or any other citizen, says Naqvi
5 years ago

Citizenship Amendment Act: No threat to any Indian Muslim or any other citizen, says Naqvi

The Hindu  

Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Wednesday said there was no “question mark” on or threat to citizenship of any Indian Muslim or any other citizen due to the Citizenship Amendment Act recently cleared by Parliament. “The CAA is to provide citizenship and not to take away citizenship of any person,” he said at an event to …

CAA violates international customary law. Review it
5 years ago

CAA violates international customary law. Review it

Hindustan Times  

The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, aims to give Indian nationality to non-Muslim “illegal migrants” from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, who came to India before December 31, 2014, due to religious persecution, and who enjoy the benefit of waiver of Foreigners Act and Passports Act. The CAA makes India’s violation of the non-refoulement principle manifest Since the CAA deals with persecuted …

India citizenship law protests: All the latest updates
5 years ago

India citizenship law protests: All the latest updates

Al Jazeera  

Supreme Court delays hearing of pleas challenging the new law to January 22 amid widespread protests across the country. Tuesday, December 17 Why Indians are protesting against new law It has been a week of violent protests across India over a controversial “anti-Muslim” citizenship law, which critics say violates the country’s secular constitution. Fresh protests held across India Fresh protests …

Opinion| Aaj Ki Baat December 16 episode: Indian Muslims must cast aside their sense of fear over CAA
5 years ago

Opinion| Aaj Ki Baat December 16 episode: Indian Muslims must cast aside their sense of fear over CAA

India TV News  

There were protests by students against the amended Citizenship Act on Monday in Aligarh Muslim University, Jadavpur University, Mau in UP, Lucknow's Darul Uloom Nadwatul seminary and in Kochi in Kerala, even as uneasy calm prevailed in Assam. This amended citizenship law has nothing to do with Indian Muslims. The amended Citizenship Act is meant only for non-Muslims who are …

Why are so many Indians protesting against the citizenship law?
5 years ago

Why are so many Indians protesting against the citizenship law?

Al Jazeera  

As protests continue in Assam, New Delhi and other areas, Al Jazeera looks at three reasons why people are on streets. It has been a week of violent protests across India over a controversial “anti-Muslim” citizenship law, which critics say violates the country’s secular constitution. Residents now fear the new citizenship law will provide protection to Bengali-speaking Hindus left off …

What you should know about India’s ‘anti-Muslim’ citizenship law
5 years ago

What you should know about India’s ‘anti-Muslim’ citizenship law

Al Jazeera  

Ruling Hindu nationalist government pushes for the law, which opposition says violates India’s secular constitution. New Delhi, India – India has passed a law that grants citizenship to religious minorities – except Muslims – from neighbouring countries, with legal experts saying it violates the country’s secular constitution. The new citizenship law, which was an amendment to a 1955 legislation, allows …

What you should know about India’s ‘anti-Muslim’ citizenship law
5 years ago

What you should know about India’s ‘anti-Muslim’ citizenship law

Al Jazeera  

Ruling Hindu nationalist government pushes for the law, which opposition says violates India’s secular constitution. New Delhi, India – India has passed a law that grants citizenship to religious minorities – except Muslims – from neighbouring countries, with legal experts saying it violates the country’s secular constitution. The new citizenship law, which was an amendment to a 1955 legislation, allows …

How many immigrants will benefit from Citizenship Act? 25,447 Hindus, 5,807 Sikhs, 55 Christians, two Buddhists and two Parsis, says Intelligence Bureau – Firstpost
5 years ago

How many immigrants will benefit from Citizenship Act? 25,447 Hindus, 5,807 Sikhs, 55 Christians, two Buddhists and two Parsis, says Intelligence Bureau – Firstpost

Firstpost  

Those who will immediately benefit from the Citizenship Amendment Act are a total of “31,313 persons belonging to minority communities, including “25,447 Hindu, 5,807 Sikhs, 55 Christians, 2 Buddhists and 2 Parsis who have been given Long Term Visa on the basis of their claim of religious persecution in their respective countries and want Indian Citizenship”. A total of 31,313 …

Anti-CAA Protests In Assam: Curfew Relaxed In Guwahati Today; B'desh Cancels Ministers' Trips To India
5 years ago

Anti-CAA Protests In Assam: Curfew Relaxed In Guwahati Today; B'desh Cancels Ministers' Trips To India

ABP News  

Guwahati: The curfew imposed in the wake of the protest over the Citizenship Act 2019, has been relaxed on Saturday from 9 am to 4 pm by the administration. The protests broke out in Guwahati and other parts of Assam following the passage of Citizenship Bill 2019 in Parliament on Wednesday, and it becoming an Act thereupon after the Presidential …

In Hindu-nationalist India, Muslims risk being branded infiltrators
5 years ago

In Hindu-nationalist India, Muslims risk being branded infiltrators

CNN  

New Delhi CNN — Fears are growing among India’s 200 million Muslims that they could soon be classified as illegal immigrants under new, far-reaching government proposals. Their exclusion frustrated many in Assam’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, who attempted to undermine the legitimacy of the registry by saying it had had left out “some genuine Indian citizens.” The BJP, …

CAB: BJP sows seeds of strife across South Asia
5 years ago

CAB: BJP sows seeds of strife across South Asia

Deccan Chronicle  

Both Houses of Parliament earlier this week approved the Citizenship Bill after some Opposition resistance in the Upper House. Diplomatic implications evaded him in tarring three nations with the same brush, quoting incidents ad nauseum from Afghanistan under the Taliban, deposed in 2001, Bangladesh under non-Awami League governments or even acknowledging that Pakistan’s Sunni radical evangelism persecutes Islamic groups like …

Citizenship Amendment Act is misunderstood; it gives persecuted minorities Indian citizenship, doesn't seek to expel Muslims
5 years ago

Citizenship Amendment Act is misunderstood; it gives persecuted minorities Indian citizenship, doesn't seek to expel Muslims

Firstpost  

“The desperation at grossly misrepresenting CAB reveals the frustration that an average Indian Muslim can no longer be blinded to a narrative” Asia Bibi, a Christian Pakistani, was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death by a lower court in Pakistan, upheld by the Lahore High Court. The Citizenship Amendment Act is India’s effort at giving these minorities who managed …

P. Chidambaram interview: Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is a clear signal, a blunt signal to Muslims
5 years ago

P. Chidambaram interview: Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is a clear signal, a blunt signal to Muslims

The Hindu  

In this exclusive interview, his first after his release on bail in the INX Media case, former Finance MinisterP. Government was taken by surprise when it found that the bulk of the 1.9 million people finally excluded under NRC were Bengali Hindus.That’s what Derek O Brien said in the Parliament. If NRC comes first, all the alleged illegal immigrants will …

India’s Parliament passes contentious citizenship bill
5 years ago

India’s Parliament passes contentious citizenship bill

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Indian lawmakers approved legislation granting citizenship to non-Muslims who migrated from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, even though critics said it undermines the country’s secular constitution. Modi said it was a “landmark day for India” and the law would “alleviate the suffering of many who faced persecution for years.” But Indian newspaper opinion writers said it was yet …

Assam protests: Citizenship Amendment Bill gets President's nod, becomes Act
5 years ago

Assam protests: Citizenship Amendment Bill gets President's nod, becomes Act

India Today  

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday said the Citizenship Bill was a direct assault on India's secular character and the Parliament had "no authority" to pass a law that "defiled" the Constitution and violated its basic principles. A day after the Bill was passed by Parliament, the Congress leader said, instead of using brute majority in Parliament to push …

Indian protesters set fire to train stations over new law opening citizenship to some migrants
5 years ago

Indian protesters set fire to train stations over new law opening citizenship to some migrants

ABC  

Indian protesters angry over a new federal law that would make it easier for non-Muslim minorities from some neighbouring countries to seek Indian citizenship have attacked train stations and blocked highways in the country's north-east, Indian authorities have said. Key points: The citizenship amendment law grants Indian nationality to non-Muslims who fled Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan Protesters say the measure …

Citizenship (Amendment) Bill: Rethink exclusion of Muslims, allies tell government
5 years ago

Citizenship (Amendment) Bill: Rethink exclusion of Muslims, allies tell government

The Hindu  

Asking the government to “rethink” and “revise” the Citizenship Amendment Bill, allies of the BJP in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday sought inclusion of Muslims and those from all neighbouring countries, particularly Sri Lanka, in the Bill. Citing statements from the late AIADMK chief and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha, Ms. Sathyanath said “Amma had demanded citizenship for Sri …

Citizenship Amendment Bill: Over 700 civil society members demand CAB's withdrawal in joint statement, ask govt not to 'betray the Constitution'
5 years ago

Citizenship Amendment Bill: Over 700 civil society members demand CAB's withdrawal in joint statement, ask govt not to 'betray the Constitution'

Firstpost  

In the statement, they threw light on how ’the CAB 2019 tears to shreds the inclusive, composite vision of India that guided our freedom struggle,’ and the execution of the bill would fundamentally alter the character of the Indian republic. As Home Minister Amit Shah presented the Citizenship Bill in the parliament, more than 700 members of the civil society …

Rajya Sabha passes Citizenship Amendment Bill: What is a Hindu and why are Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka left out of CAB?
5 years ago

Rajya Sabha passes Citizenship Amendment Bill: What is a Hindu and why are Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka left out of CAB?

Firstpost  

The Hindus in Myanmar are facing atrocities if not from the government but from the Rohingya Muslim militants. The Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 says : “Provided that any person belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian community from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan, who entered into India on or before the 31st day of December, 2014 and who has …

Citizenship Amendment Bill: Legalise business, marriage, children of refugees
5 years ago

Citizenship Amendment Bill: Legalise business, marriage, children of refugees

Op India  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah tabled the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 in the upper house of the parliament today. Addressing the Rajya Sabha, Amit Shah first took the opportunity to rubbished the rumours doing the rounds about the Muslim population of the country being adversely affected by the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill. Read: Citizenship Amendment Bill – Myths …

Citizenship Bill tabled in Rajya Sabha
5 years ago

Citizenship Bill tabled in Rajya Sabha

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday tabled the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 in the Rajya Sabha, two days after the Lok Sabha passed the controversial bill. On Monday, the Lok Sabha passed the controversial Bill with Shah reiterating that the Bill does not discriminate against Muslims even as the Lower House saw a fierce debate on the …

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