The claim that the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 offers protection to persecuted minorities from the neighbouring countries is baseless, argued the Indian Union Muslim League in its written submission filed before the Supreme Court seeking stay of the Act and the Citizenship Amendment Rule 2024.It was contended in the written submission, filed ahead of the hearing scheduled on April. The …
As New Delhi claims to help persecuted minorities in South Asia through the law, the mainly Muslim refugees from Myanmar face deportation. Kolkata, India – Muhammad Hamin has been unable to sleep at night since March 8 when the government of the northeast Indian state of Manipur ordered the deportation of Rohingya refugees. Three days after the Manipur government began …
Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday accused his former ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party, of “insulting” Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar by pushing the amended citizenship act. Thackeray said the BJP-led central government has created an atmosphere of fear in the country in the name of persecuted minorities and has put real issues aside Addressing a press conference on the …
The amended Citizenship Act is an internal matter of India, Maldives' Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed said on Friday while noting that the country has always been a safe haven for persecuted minorities. Giving his own example, Nasheed said the Indian high commission gave him refuge at a time when he was going to be arrested by Maldives' former president Abdulla …
