The Narendra Modi Government in the present day introduced the implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 rules. It was an integral a part of the BJP’s 2019 manifesto. With this notification, the persecuted migrants beloging to minority communities will be capable to get citizenship of India. Following the passage of the CAA by Parliament in December 2019 and its subsequent Presidential assent, important protests erupted in varied components of the nation after which the Modi authorities had put the implementation of the legislation in an abeyance. On December 27, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had asserted that the implementation of the CAA can’t be halted because it stands because the legislation of the land.
What Is CAA?
The Citizenship Amendment Act goals to confer Indian citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim migrants – together with Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians – who migrated from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and arrived in India earlier than December 31, 2014. The authorities has arrange an internet portal for permitting the migrants to use for the citizenship. Applicants might want to disclose the yr of their entry into India with none journey paperwork. No extra documentation will probably be required from the candidates.
Enabling CAA Through District Magistrate
During the previous two years, over 30 district magistrates and residential secretaries throughout 9 states have been approved with the power to confer Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians arriving from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan beneath the Citizenship Act of 1955. As per the Ministry of Home Affairs annual report for 2021-22, between April 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021, a cumulative rely of 1,414 people from non-Muslim minority communities originating from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan have been granted Indian citizenship by registration or naturalization beneath the Citizenship Act, 1955.
West Bengal Government’s Stand On CAA
The Mamata Banerjee authorities has been against the CAA. “If people are deprived of their rights under the rules, then we will fight against it. This is BJP’s publicity for elections, it is nothing else,” mentioned Banerjee in the present day. Banerjee additionally mentioned that she will not permit the federal government to implement the NRC as effectively. The Bengal CM added that everybody who dwell in Bengal are residents of India.
