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- The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, seeksto grantIndian citizenship to refugees who had sought shelter in India before 31st December2014, due to religious persecution in three neighbouring countries.
- 3 countries – Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh,
- 6 minority communities – Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians
- Key Issues
- Removes legal barriers to rehabilitation and citizenship.
- To give a dignified life to refugees who have suffered for decades.
- Citizenship rights will protect their cultural, linguistic, and social identity.
- It will also ensure economic, commercial, free movement, and property purchase rights.
- Many misconceptions have been spread regarding the Citizenship Amendment Act.
- This is the law to give citizenship, CAA will not take away citizenship of any Indian citizen, irrespective of religion.
- This Act is only for those who have suffered persecution for years and have no other shelter in the world except India.
- The Constitution of India grants us the right to provide religious persecuted refugees with fundamental rights and to grant citizenship from a humanitarian perspective.
- The implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act was delayed due to the Covid pandemic. But now we are implementing it…
- We had said in our 2019 Lok Sabha election manifesto that
“We are committed to enacting the Citizenship Amendment Bill for the protection of persecuted religious minorities from neighboring countries.”
- Today, we have fulfilled this promise within the spirit of the Constitution.
