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 …
THE Bharatiya Janata Party seems to have miscalculated the reactions to the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019, particularly in the north-eastern region, which is in ferment. Representations from Assam pointed out that the Bill would “bring a radical change in the demographic pattern of Assam and pose a threat to the economic, political, cultural and social affairs of the indigenous people”. …
