CAA, NRC ‘may affect status’ of Muslims in India: US Congressional report

The December 18 report also said that for the first time in independent India’s history, a religious criterion has been added to the country’s naturalization process.

The amended citizenship law along with a National Register of Citizens (NRC) being planned by the Narendra Modi government “may affect the status” of Muslim minority in India, a report by US Congressional Research Service (CRS) has said. The December 18 report also said that for the first time in independent India’s history, a religious criterion has been added to the country’s naturalization process.

The CRS is an independent research wing of the US Congress which prepares reports periodically on issues of domestic and global importance for the lawmakers to take informed decision. These are not considered as official reports of the US Congress.

“In tandem with a National Register of Citizens (NRC) planned by the federal government, the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) may affect the status of India’s large Muslim minority of roughly 200 million,” said the CRS in its first ever report on the amended Citizenship law.

According to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, non-Muslim refugees who came to India till December 31, 2014, to escape religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will be given Indian citizenship. Since both houses of Parliament approved amendments to the citizenship law earlier this month, protests – sometimes violent – have taken place across the country during which many protesters have died, especially in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka…

CAA, NRC protests : Many UP cities switch off internet to foil unrest

Thousands of police and paramilitary are on the streets in Uttar Pradesh to ensure peace for Friday prayers.

CAA Protests: A huge number of police and paramilitary are in the city in Uttar Pradesh to guarantee harmony for Friday supplications, trying to anticipate brutality that killed at any rate 19 individuals in about fourteen days of fights against the new citizenship law. Web has been suspended in 14 urban communities, including Bulandshar, Mathura, Ghaziabad and Agra, for the day to avoid bits of gossip during challenges the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC).

India has been shaken by shows since December 12, after the administration authorized CAA that gives non-Muslim minorities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who moved here before 2015 a pathway to Indian citizenship.

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