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

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 …

In its Lok Sabha election manifesto in 2019,the Bharatiya Janata Party made 75 promises to coincide with India’s 75th Independence day in 2022. By amending the original Act of 1955, the 2019 Bill sought to grant citizenship status to illegal immigrants of six religious groups from the three neighbouring Muslim-dominated countries of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh on the hypothetical assumption …

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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 …

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Citizenship (Amendment) Bill may benefit ‘declared foreigners’

The Citizenship Bill, 2019 that will be introduced in Parliament on December 9 is also likely to benefit the non-Muslims who were declared illegal migrants by various Foreigners Tribunals in Assam. The redrafted Bill has a provision to abate “any proceedings pending against a person under this section in respect of illegal migration or citizenship before any authority including Foreigners …

Citizenship Amendment Bill: Divisive Bill

AGP dumps BJP over Citizenship Bill: What the saffron party stands to lose in Assam ahead of Lok Sabha polls

As the Asom Gana Parishad, an ally of the BJP in Assam, finally walked out of the BJP-led coalition in the state over differences on the proposed Citizenship Bill 2016, voters in Assam seemed least surprised. Last month, AGP president Atul Bora wrote to BJP chief Amit Shah, saying the party will have no alternative but to "repudiate the existing …

4 opposition parties oppose final JPC report on Citizenship Bill, submit dissent notes

The Centre's ambitious Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016 is expected to face an acrimonious road ahead with MPs of at least four parties, including the Congress, Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party and the CPI submitting dissent notes to the Joint Parliamentary Committee report on the controversial Bill. Security forces blamed the outfit for the killing of 5 Hindu Bengalis seen as beneficiaries …

JPC report on Citizenship Amendment Bill adopted amid opposition protests

A Joint Parliamentary Committee examining the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill has adopted amid protests by opposition MPs its report that will be tabled in the Lok Sabha on January 7, sources said. "We have adopted the report in the JPC meeting today and we will submit it in Lok Sabha on January 7," BJP MP Rajendra Agrawal, who heads the …

All opposition-sponsored amendments in Citizenship Amendment Bill defeated at JPC meet

All amendments moved by the opposition in the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill, which seeks to grant Indian nationality to people belonging to minority communities in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, were defeated on Monday. The bill seeks to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955, to grant Indian nationality to people belonging to minority communities -- Hindus, Sikhs, …

Citizenship amendment bill may not get through in Winter session

The controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill may not be able to get through during the Winter session of Parliament which comes to an end on January 8, sources said on Sunday. A meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee, which is examining the bill, will be held on Monday to finalise the proposed legislation before being submitted to the Lok Sabha. In …

BJP bets on citizenship bill to make inroads in Assam, West Bengal as TMC's 'U-turn' leaves legislation up in air