Under CAA, there is a provision to give citizenship to people of other religions coming from three Muslim majority neighboring countries except the Muslim community. The central government has prepared a web portal related to CAA. The minorities coming from the three Muslim-majority neighboring countries will have to register themselves on this portal and after government scrutiny, they will be given citizenship under the law.
The Modi government at the Center has issued the notification of the Citizenship Amendment Act. This is a big step by the central government before the Lok Sabha elections. Under this, minorities from three neighboring countries will now be able to get Indian citizenship. For this they will have to apply on the online portal prepared by the Central Government. On the other hand, after the notification was issued by the Centre, security has been increased in many states including Delhi and North.
In fact, before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP had included CAA in its manifesto. The party had made this a big issue. Home Minister Amit Shah had talked about implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA several times in his recent election speeches. He had announced that it would be implemented before the Lok Sabha elections. Now the Central Government has issued a notification for this and implemented it.
Under CAA, there is a provision to give citizenship to people of other religions coming from three Muslim majority neighboring countries except the Muslim community. The Central Government has prepared a web portal related to CAA. The minorities coming from the three Muslim-majority neighboring countries will have to register themselves on this portal and after government scrutiny, they will be given citizenship under the law. For this, there will be no need to provide any documents to the displaced minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The central government had amended the law in 2019
In the year 2019, the Narendra Modi-led central government had amended the citizenship law. In this, a provision was made to give Indian citizenship to six minorities (Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists and Parsis) who came from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh before 31 December 2014. According to the rules, the right to grant citizenship will be in the hands of the Central Government.
Who will get citizenship?
The right to grant citizenship rests entirely with the Central Government. The Citizenship Act of 1955 has been amended to grant Indian citizenship to immigrants from Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Parsi, Buddhist and Christian communities of neighboring Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Such migrant citizens, who, fed up with religious persecution in their countries, came to India and took refuge in India before 31 December 2014. Under this law, those people have been considered as illegal immigrants, who have entered India without valid travel documents (passport and visa) or have come to India with valid documents, but have stayed here for more than the stipulated period. Have gone.
This work will have to be done for citizenship
The government has made the entire process online. An online portal has also been prepared for this. Applicant can also apply from his mobile phone. Applicants will have to state the year in which they entered India without documents. No documents will be asked from the applicants. All such pending cases related to citizenship will be converted online. Eligible displaced people will have to apply online only on the portal. After that the Home Ministry will investigate and issue citizenship.
