Dozens take their own lives in Assam as two million people are told they may be stripped of Indian citizenship
5 years, 3 months ago

Dozens take their own lives in Assam as two million people are told they may be stripped of Indian citizenship

The Independent  

It was supposed to be the ultimate fix to weed out illegal immigrants, administered by a right-wing ruling party that dubbed them “termites”. open image in gallery A detention centre for illegal immigrants under construction at a village in Goalpara The leader of the BJP’s state arm in Assam, Ranjit Dass, effectively disowned the exercise, saying that “the NRC in its current form cannot be regarded as an error-free list of citizens”. The names of indigenous people have been excluded while many foreigners have been included,” he said, adding that his group would appeal to the Supreme Court until “Assam illegal migrant free”. And Manohar Lal Khattar, the BJP chief minister of Haryana, said his state would begin work to “implement NRC along the lines of Assam”. open image in gallery Indian villagers check their names against the final NRC list There is certainly no immediate prospect of anyone being “sent back” to Bangladesh.

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Declared foreigners, 28 in Assam sent to ‘transit camp’
4 months, 1 week ago

Declared foreigners, 28 in Assam sent to ‘transit camp’

The Hindu  

GUWAHATI Police in western Assam’s Barpeta district sent 28 people declared non-citizens by the Foreigners’ Tribunals to a ‘transit camp’ at Matia in the Goalpara district on Monday. “The police acted on the tribunal’s directive and ensured the transportation of the declared foreigners to the transit camp,” he said, underscoring the government’s efforts to identify and detain people suspected to …

How do Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals function? | Explained
5 months, 3 weeks ago

How do Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals function? | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: On July 5, the Assam government asked the Border wing of the State’s police not to forward cases of non-Muslims who entered India illegally before 2014 to the Foreigners Tribunals. The FTs are currently exclusive to Assam as cases of “illegal immigrants” are dealt with according to the Foreigners’ Act in other States. The apex court …

Don’t refer people covered by CAA to foreigners’ tribunals: Assam govt to cops
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Don’t refer people covered by CAA to foreigners’ tribunals: Assam govt to cops

Hindustan Times  

GUWAHATI: The Assam government has told the state police to stop initiating proceedings against persecuted minorities belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian communities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who entered the country before December 31, 2014, and are entitled to Indian citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act operationalised on March 11 this year. The border police has …

Only eight applied for citizenship under CAA in Assam: CM Himanta
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Only eight applied for citizenship under CAA in Assam: CM Himanta

New Indian Express  

GUWAHATI: Four months elapsed since the Centre notified the rules for the implementation of contentious Citizenship Act but only eight persons applied for citizenship in Assam under this amended law. People from six non-Muslim communities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, who entered India till December 31, 2014, can apply for citizenship under CAA. “People who came to India before 2015 …

Naga bodies in Manipur urge Centre to repatriate illegal immigrants
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Naga bodies in Manipur urge Centre to repatriate illegal immigrants

Hindustan Times  

The Naga Civil Society Organisations in Manipur have urged Union home minister Amit Shah to repatriate illegal immigrants from Myanmar to their country and to withdraw Assam Rifles from the Indo-Myanmar border areas around Kamjong in the state. The Naga Civil Society Organisations in Manipur said the illegal immigrants, numbering about 5,457 given shelter in eight Tangkhul Naga villages, have …

Northeastern View | How Assam’s citizenship deprivation regime abets unjust forced deportations
7 months, 1 week ago

Northeastern View | How Assam’s citizenship deprivation regime abets unjust forced deportations

Hindustan Times  

On May 16, the Supreme Court of India asked the central government to take “immediate steps” to deport 17 people declared foreigners by Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals and are currently lodged in a foreigner detention centre – officially known as a ‘Transit Camp’ – in the state’s Goalpara district. Disenfranchisement in numbers In Assam, the quasi-judicial FT regime, by virtue of …

’Mamata Didi misleading people of Bengal’: Amit Shah takes jibe at West Bengal CM on CAA
8 months, 4 weeks ago

’Mamata Didi misleading people of Bengal’: Amit Shah takes jibe at West Bengal CM on CAA

Live Mint  

Assuring the people of West Bengal of zero infiltration if the Bharatiya Janata Party is voted to power in the state, Union Home Minister Amit Shah lashed out at the Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee for opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act. PM Narendra Modi and the BJP government can stop infiltration in Bengal," Shah said speaking at a public rally …

Amid CAA row, Asaduddin Owaisi questions fate of ‘1.5 lakh Muslims left out of NRC in Assam’
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Amid CAA row, Asaduddin Owaisi questions fate of ‘1.5 lakh Muslims left out of NRC in Assam’

Hindustan Times  

Amid a row over the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday questioned the fate of 1.5 lakh Muslims, who were allegedly left out of the National Register of Citizens list in Assam. Addressing a public meeting in Hyderabad on Friday, days after the BJP-led Centre published the rules for implementing CAA …

More than 1.59 lakh declared as 'foreigners' in Assam: Himanta Biswa Sarma
10 months, 4 weeks ago

More than 1.59 lakh declared as 'foreigners' in Assam: Himanta Biswa Sarma

Hindustan Times  

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma has shared that more than 1.59 lakh people have been declared as 'foreigners' in the state so far. Assam chief minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma Sarma was responding to a question by opposition AIUDF legislator Aminul Islam in the assembly. In response to another question from Congress MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed, Sarma said as per …

Inflow Of Illegal Migrants To Assam And North-Eastern States
1 year, 1 month ago

Inflow Of Illegal Migrants To Assam And North-Eastern States

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Union Government to furnish data on the inflow of illegal migrants to Assam and North-Eastern states after March 25, 1971.The Court also directed the Centre to inform the steps taken by the Government at an administrative level to deal with illegal immigration into the North Eastern states particularly Assam. The Supreme Court on …

Assam Accord | Government Has To Be Given Leeway To Make Compromises For Nation's Well Being, Says Supreme Court [Day 2 Hearing]
1 year, 1 month ago

Assam Accord | Government Has To Be Given Leeway To Make Compromises For Nation's Well Being, Says Supreme Court [Day 2 Hearing]

Live Law  

While hearing petitions challenging Section 6A of the Citizenship Act 1955, the Supreme Court on Wednesday orally remarked that certain political compromises made by the government of the day for the overall welfare of the nation cannot be always judged on the basis of hindsight wisdom, as the Government has to be given the leeway to deal the expedient problems …

Assam illegal immigrants | Supreme Court postpones hearing on challenge to Section 6A of Citizenship Act to December 5
1 year, 2 months ago

Assam illegal immigrants | Supreme Court postpones hearing on challenge to Section 6A of Citizenship Act to December 5

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned a scheduled Constitution Bench hearing on a series of petitions challenging the constitutionality of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955, to December 5. Section 6A was a special provision inserted into the 1955 Act in furtherance of a Memorandum of Settlement called the ‘Assam Accord’ signed on August 15, 1985 by the then …

30,000 of 1.56 lakh illegal foreigners deported: Assam Minister Atul Bora
1 year, 3 months ago

30,000 of 1.56 lakh illegal foreigners deported: Assam Minister Atul Bora

India TV News  

Assam Minister Atul Bora on Wednesday told the state Assembly that more than 1.56 lakh illegal foreigners have been detected in the state as per the 1985 Assam Accord provisions while over 30,000 of them have been deported so far. "1,56,651 illegal foreigners have been identified in the state till July 31, 2023, as per the Accord regulations. Bora said …

‘Muslim Population Has Increased In Assam, This Abrupt Growth Has Come From Other Side’: Centre To Gauhati High Court In Declared Foreigners' Case
1 year, 8 months ago

‘Muslim Population Has Increased In Assam, This Abrupt Growth Has Come From Other Side’: Centre To Gauhati High Court In Declared Foreigners' Case

Live Law  

The Gauhati High Court is hearing a significant matter in which it is examining the rights available to a declared foreigner or illegal migrant in India before their deportation.In the last hearing held on April 28 before the division bench of Justice A.M. Bujor Barua and Justice Robin Phukan, the Deputy Solicitor General R.K.D. The Gauhati High Court is hearing …

Over 30,000 Illegal Foreigners Deported Till 31 August Based on Assam Accord
2 years, 3 months ago

Over 30,000 Illegal Foreigners Deported Till 31 August Based on Assam Accord

The Quint  

According to the Assam Accord signed on 15 August 1985, anyone entering the state on or after 25 March 1971 will be deemed a foreigner and will be deported from the state. Clause 6 of the Assam Accord guarantees "Constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards, as may be appropriate, shall be provided to protect, preserve and promote the cultural, social, linguistic …

31 declared foreigners died in detention centres from 2016 to 2021: Assam govt
2 years, 9 months ago

31 declared foreigners died in detention centres from 2016 to 2021: Assam govt

Hindustan Times  

SILCHAR: A total of 31 persons who were declared foreigners have died in Assam’s six detention centres between 2016 and 2022, according to a statement by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma made in the state assembly. The foreigners tribunal courts in Assam have issued notices to 19,358 persons between May 1, 2021 and February 28, 2022 asking them to prove …

10 Applications Of Chinese Nationals Pending For Grant Of Citizenship, Parliament Told
2 years, 9 months ago

10 Applications Of Chinese Nationals Pending For Grant Of Citizenship, Parliament Told

News 18  

The Union ministry of home affairs on Wednesday said that there are 10 applications of Chinese nationals which are pending for grant of citizenship during the ongoing Budget Session. The ministry’s response was in a question raised by lawmaker Tiruchi Siva who sought details of asylum and citizenship requests from communities from China including Tibet and Uyghurs, Mongolians and other …

Assam: India deports 22 Bangladeshi nationals through Sutarkandi border checkpoint
2 years, 10 months ago

Assam: India deports 22 Bangladeshi nationals through Sutarkandi border checkpoint

India TV News  

Highlights India on Feb 12 deported 22 Bangladeshi nationals through Assam's Sutarkandi border checkpoint The officials had deported Bangladeshi nationals through legal procedures via international border Bangladeshi nationals had entered India without valid documents in different parts of Assam India on Saturday deported 22 Bangladeshi nationals through Assam's Sutarkandi border checkpoint. The officials had deported the Bangladeshi nationals through legal …

Five Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants Apprehended In Bengaluru: Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra
3 years, 1 month ago

Five Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants Apprehended In Bengaluru: Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra

ABP News  

New Delhi: Five illegal Bangladeshi immigrants were apprehended in Bengaluru on Friday, according to Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra. “Today our CCB have taken five illegal Bangladeshi immigrants into custody. Speaking to PTI, the Karnataka Minister stated that illegal immigrants pose a threat to national security and are hence being apprehended. In response to a query, the Minister stated that, …

The controversies around the Final Draft of Citizenship in Assam
3 years, 1 month ago

The controversies around the Final Draft of Citizenship in Assam

The Hindu  

The story so far: In response to a Right to Information application by The Hindu, the State Coordinator, National Register of Citizens, Assam said that 1032 doubtful cases in the final draft of NRC, Assam have been referred to the concerned district commissioners for necessary action. The State Coordinator, NRC said that the details of “illegal foreigners” had crept into …

NRC in limbo, Assam govt. appears to have gone soft on ‘Bangladeshi’ issue
3 years, 3 months ago

NRC in limbo, Assam govt. appears to have gone soft on ‘Bangladeshi’ issue

The Hindu  

The long pause in the exercise to update the National Register of Citizens and a series of decisions have indicated that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Assam government may have gone soft on the ‘Bangladeshi’ issue. Detention centres renamed ‘transit camps’ Apart from going slow on the NRC, the government showed signs of softening its stand on the Bangladeshi issue by …

Done and dusted: On the National Register of Citizens process
3 years, 3 months ago

Done and dusted: On the National Register of Citizens process

The Hindu  

While there may have been lulls aplenty, the next twist or turn in the long-running saga of the National Register of Citizens update for Assam is never far. Unsurprisingly, its publication annoyed political parties across the ideological divide, with some alleging it victimised document-less Bengali Hindus and indigenous Assamese people and others that it targeted the State’s Bengali-origin Muslims. In …

Gurkhas not to be tagged as foreigners, orders Assam govt
3 years, 4 months ago

Gurkhas not to be tagged as foreigners, orders Assam govt

The Hindu  

The Assam government’s Political Department on Tuesday issued a notification ordering the State police’s Border wing not to forward any case against Gurkhas to the Foreigners’ Tribunals under the Foreigners’ Act of 1946. The official notification follows the Himanta Biswa Sarma Cabinet’s decision on August 4 to exempt the community from being tagged as non-citizens and tried in the tribunals …

Assam NRC authority seeks re-verification of citizens’ list
3 years, 7 months ago

Assam NRC authority seeks re-verification of citizens’ list

The Hindu  

The Assam National Register of Citizens authority has approached the Supreme Court seeking a comprehensive and time-bound re-verification of the citizens’ list, highlighting “major irregularities” in the process. The interlocutory application by State NRC Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma also prays for the deletion of illegal voters from Assam’s electoral rolls besides the revision of the draft NRC and a supplementary …

Myanmar nationals given ‘safe passage’ to Delhi to seek UN refuge
3 years, 8 months ago

Myanmar nationals given ‘safe passage’ to Delhi to seek UN refuge

Al Jazeera  

Seven, including three journalists, set to travel to India’s capital to approach UNHCR after Manipur court orders safe passage for them. Moreh, Manipur, India – Seven Myanmar nationals, including three journalists from a Yangon-based media house, are set to travel to New Delhi to approach the India office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees after a court in …

Assam Assembly Elections 2021 | Waiver of farmer debts, identification of immigrants in Congress manifesto
3 years, 9 months ago

Assam Assembly Elections 2021 | Waiver of farmer debts, identification of immigrants in Congress manifesto

The Hindu  

Waiving off the debts of farmers and beginning the process of identification of illegal immigrants topped the list of promises in the Congress manifesto that former party president Rahul Gandhi released in Guwahati on Saturday. The Congress pledged to take steps to solve the problem of illegal immigrants based on the March 25, 1971 cut-off date as prescribed in the …

Man who was declared ‘foreigner’ passes away at 104 in Assam
4 years ago

Man who was declared ‘foreigner’ passes away at 104 in Assam

The Hindu  

A bedridden man who was sent to a detention centre for foreigners at the age of 102 has died at his residence in southern Assam’s Barak Valley. “He could barely speak but had one last wish – to die as a recognised Indian,” she said from their residence at Amraghat near district headquarters Silchar. “Sad to know,” said Lakshmanan S., …

‘Foreigners’ in the NRC: Affidavit filed in High Court
4 years, 1 month ago

‘Foreigners’ in the NRC: Affidavit filed in High Court

The Hindu  

The National Register of Citizens authorities have submitted to the Gauhati High Court an affidavit reportedly containing the details of “illegal foreigners” whose names had crept into the updated list of citizens released in 2019. It was later found that some “ineligible people” — those without papers establishing their domicile in Assam before March 24, 1971 — had been included …

Enforce NRC Throughout India To Remove "Illegal Immigrants": PIL In SC Seeks Issuance Of Directions To Centre To Revise Voters' List
4 years, 4 months ago

Enforce NRC Throughout India To Remove "Illegal Immigrants": PIL In SC Seeks Issuance Of Directions To Centre To Revise Voters' List

Live Law  

A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking issuance of directions to the Government to take action against Foreigners illegally residing in India in violation of the foreigners Act, 1946 & against those residing in India in violation of the cut of date of March 1, 1947 & 19 July 1948.The plea seeks nationwide implementation of National Register …

Covid-19 Lockdown: What Does it Mean for Assam's 'Doubtful Voters' and NRC Rejects
4 years, 7 months ago

Covid-19 Lockdown: What Does it Mean for Assam's 'Doubtful Voters' and NRC Rejects

News 18  

A few days back it was only freedom and nothing else that mattered, but today when she is out in the open after 10 long years in detention, she is still crying for freedom. The decision of the apex court, which was in response to a petition filed by Justice and Liberty Initiative, a civil society group, on March 25, …

Fear of statelessness haunts thousands rejected by NRC in Assam
4 years, 9 months ago

Fear of statelessness haunts thousands rejected by NRC in Assam

The Hindu  

The fear of statelessness among in Assam has a name now. The number is a reference to Ms. Begum, who submitted 15 documents, including PAN card, land revenue receipt and bank passbook but did not pass muster for the Gauhati High Court to overrule the order of a Foreigners Tribunal declaring her a foreigner of the “post-March 1971 stream”. But …

Around 800 People Kept In Detention Centres In Assam: Ministry Of Home Affairs [Read Statement]
4 years, 9 months ago

Around 800 People Kept In Detention Centres In Assam: Ministry Of Home Affairs [Read Statement]

Live Law  

Replying to a question in Rajya Sabha, the Minister of State for the Ministry Of Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai, disclosed that a total of 802 people have been kept in detention centres in Assam, as of March 6, 2020. He had asked the government about the number of people in Assam who had failed to prove their citizenship and the …

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 …

Assam NRC authority seeks details of ‘ineligible persons’
4 years, 10 months ago

Assam NRC authority seeks details of ‘ineligible persons’

The Hindu  

The National Register of Citizens authority has indicated at an erroneous updating exercise by asking the district heads in Assam to provide details of “ineligible persons” in the final list of citizens published on August 31, 2019. Indigenous groups believe many illegal immigrants have made it to the NRC in the three Bengali-dominated southern Assam districts – Cachar, Hailakandi and …

Supreme Court directs Centre, Assam government to file status report on Bangladeshi migrants in detention centres
4 years, 10 months ago

Supreme Court directs Centre, Assam government to file status report on Bangladeshi migrants in detention centres

Firstpost  

The Supreme Court Friday directed the Centre and the Assam government to file a fresh report with regard to the status of release of Bangladeshi migrants in detention centres as per its earlier order New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday directed the Centre and the Assam government to file a fresh report with regard to the status of release of …

Assam likely to conduct survey to segregate state’s indigenous Muslims from those of Bangladeshi origin, aims to begin exercise next fiscal
4 years, 11 months ago

Assam likely to conduct survey to segregate state’s indigenous Muslims from those of Bangladeshi origin, aims to begin exercise next fiscal

Firstpost  

Guwahati: Assam is likely to conduct an exercise to identify the state’s indigenous Muslim population and segregate them from Bangladeshi origin people, even as doubts over the accuracy of the National Register of Citizens are yet to be addressed. The remaining 40 lakh are from different tribes and they need to be identified,” Assam Minority Development Board Chairman Muminul Aowal …

The truth about Assam's detention centres
4 years, 11 months ago

The truth about Assam's detention centres

India Today  

In a direct refutal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement that there are no detention centres in India, Nityananda Rai, Union minister of state for home, admitted in the Lok Sabha on February 4 to the existence of six such in Assam. The government of India has also authorised the state government to set up detention centres to keep illegal …

Citizenship Act: Uttar Pradesh becomes first state to send refugees list to Centre
4 years, 11 months ago

Citizenship Act: Uttar Pradesh becomes first state to send refugees list to Centre

India TV News  

The Citizenship Act or CAA has come into force from January 10 and Uttar Pradesh has become the first state to begin the procedure for implementation of the Act. According to various media reports, the Uttar Pradesh government has sent a list of largely Hindu refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh to the Home Ministry. The report - "Uttar Pradesh …

Assam NRC: Children of Indian citizens not to go to detention centres, govt tells SC
5 years ago

Assam NRC: Children of Indian citizens not to go to detention centres, govt tells SC

India TV News  

The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that children, whose parents have been given citizenship through NRC, will not be separated from their families and sent to the detention centres in Assam. "Almost three months after the publication of the NRC Final List, the state of Assam is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis as a direct result …

Opportunities, not religious persecution, make Bangladeshis flock to India; border residents fear more immigration on pretext of atrocities
5 years ago

Opportunities, not religious persecution, make Bangladeshis flock to India; border residents fear more immigration on pretext of atrocities

Firstpost  

For people living along the northern Dhubri sector of India-Bangladesh border in western Assam, their friends from Bangladesh have more than a single perspective to share on the Citizenship Amendment Act It’s all calm at the southern part of Assam along the Karimganj sector of the riverine India-Bangladesh border — a small section of people had resorted to protests earlier, …

NRC and story of how Assam got detention centres for foreigners
5 years ago

NRC and story of how Assam got detention centres for foreigners

India Today  

Assam currently has six detention camps. Though detection, detention and deportation of illegal immigrants are old demands in Assam, a little background about the creation of these detention centres may help understand the context. FIRST DETENTION CAMPS In July 2009, then Assam Revenue Minister Bhumidhar Barman informed state assembly that two detention camps would be set up to hold illegal …

Detention camps are spreading all over... in India, China, America
5 years ago

Detention camps are spreading all over... in India, China, America

Deccan Chronicle  

Before the protests and protesters, there was the construction of camps. Even as India has erupted into rebellion over the proposed National Register of Citizens and a citizenship bill that would fast track citizenship for refugees from all neighbouring countries save Muslims, it has been building “prison camps”. The construction of the camps suggests that the Modi administration has been …

Narendra Modi's remarks on NRC contradict Amit Shah's claims
5 years ago

Narendra Modi's remarks on NRC contradict Amit Shah's claims

The Hindu  

Addressing a rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that there have been no discussions on an all-India National Register of Citizens since the BJP-led government assumed power in 2014. Claims and counterclaims On November 20, 2019, in a reply to a question by Rajya Sabha MP Swapan Dasgupta, Home Minister Amit Shah said that …

Half of Chhattisgarh won’t be able to prove citizenship if NRC rolled out: CM
5 years ago

Half of Chhattisgarh won’t be able to prove citizenship if NRC rolled out: CM

Live Mint  

Raipur: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has said that if the National Register of Citizens is implemented, over half the population in his state will not be able to prove their citizenship as they neither have land nor land records. He also said that half the people in Chhattisgarh do not possess any document to prove their citizenship as their …

NRC, CAA ploys to divert people's attention from eco slump : MNS
5 years ago

NRC, CAA ploys to divert people's attention from eco slump : MNS

India TV News  

MNS president Raj Thackeray on Saturday virtually dubbed the new citizenship law and proposed National Register of Citizens as ploys by the Centre to divert the attention of people from the "economic crisis". Thackeray also raised questions over the proposed "influx" of immigrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh to India under the recently-passed Citizenship Amendment Act. Referring to CAA provisions, …

Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens: The Evils That Aren't - News18
5 years ago

Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens: The Evils That Aren't - News18

News 18  

The passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act in both Houses of Parliament has thrown up protests — violent and peaceful — as well as criticisms ranging from unconstitutionality of the CAA to exclusion of certain other refugees to the criminal designs of the CAA-NRC combination. First, it isn’t just Hindus but five other minority religions from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh …

Citizenship Act: Assam govt to bring in law to protect land rights of ethnic people
5 years ago

Citizenship Act: Assam govt to bring in law to protect land rights of ethnic people

India Today  

The growing agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Assam has prompted the state government to come out with safeguards for land rights for the indigenous people. The people in Assam are protesting against the CAA over concerns that the new law allowing citizenship to persecuted minorities from the neighbourhood including Bangladesh will be a threat to Assamese identity. "Assam …

CAA: Karnataka may implement it first
5 years ago

CAA: Karnataka may implement it first

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: While there are strong protests around the country against the Citizen Amendment Act, Karnataka, which has a large number of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and is ruled by the BJP, is all set to lead in their implementation as early as the first week of January and “set an example” to other states, according to sources. The Union home ministry …

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 …

Bangladesh to take back illegal Bangladeshi immigrants living in India
5 years ago

Bangladesh to take back illegal Bangladeshi immigrants living in India

Op India  

Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Sunday said that the Bangladesh government has requested the Indian administration to provide a list of illegal Bangladeshis living in India. As per reports, he further said that the Bangladesh government will send back anyone who enters Bangladesh without following due process. He said that those who are Bangladeshis have the right to …

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