Citizenship Amendment Act Comes Into Effect, Says Home Ministry
New Delhi: The Centre on Friday announced that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act will inherit force from January 10. during a gazette notification, the Union home ministry said the act under which non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are going to be given Indian citizenship, will inherit force from January 10. "In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of the section 1 of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (47 of 2019), the Central government hereby appoints the 10th day of January, 2020, because the date on which the provisions of the said Act shall inherit force," the notification said.
The CAA was gone by parliament on December 11. consistent with the CAA, members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities who have come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan till New Year's Eve , 2014 facing religious persecution there'll not be treated as illegal immigrants but given Indian citizenship. There are widespread protests against the act in several parts of the country.
Those who are against the legislation are saying that it's for the primary time that India will grant citizenship on the idea of faith which violates the essential tenets of the country's constitution.
However, the govt and ruling BJP has been defending the act saying that the minority groups from the three countries haven't any other option but to return India once they face religious persecution there. the house ministry, however, is yet to border the principles for the act.
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