The Prime Minister Modi-led BJP government on Monday notified the Citizenship Amendment Act rules.

The implementation of CAA comes ahead of the announcement of Lok Sabha poll dates.

The Ministry of Home Affairs in a statement on X, formerly Twitter, said, “Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) will be notifying today, the Rules under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA-2019). These rules, called the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024 will enable the persons eligible under CAA-2019 to apply for grant of Indian citizenship.”

The ministry added that the applications for the same are in a completely online mode for which a web portal has been provided.

The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will grant citizenship to undocumented migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

Once the CAA rules are issued, the Modi government will start granting Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan – Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians – who had come to India till December 31, 2014.

The CAA was passed in December 2019 and subsequently got the president’s assent but there were protests in several parts of the country against it.

The law has been a subject of intense debate and had sparked widespread protests throughout the country when it was passed in the Parliament, with the Opposition terming it “discriminatory.”

Source: First Post 

BDST: 1553 HRS, MAR 12, 2024
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