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Citizenship Amendment Bill gets Cabinet nod: Here's a brief guide to the contentious bill

Updated : December 04, 2019 07:46 PM IST

The primary opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Bill is that it makes illegal migrants eligible for citizenship on the basis of religion.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday held discussions with representatives of students' bodies and civil society groups of Assam.

The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government had introduced the bill in its previous tenure and got the Lok Sabha's approval.

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill, which likely will be tabled for consideration in the Lok Sabha on December 9, according to sources. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had introduced the bill in its previous tenure and got the Lok Sabha's approval. However, it couldn't pass the Rajya Sabha due to opposition protests and eventually lapsed after the dissolution of the 16th Lok Sabha.

Here's a brief guide to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill along with its main contentious provisions:

The CAB seeks to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955 to make illegal migrants who are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanisatn, Bangladesh and Pakistan eligible for Indian citizenship.

Under the Act, one of the requirements for citizenship by naturalisation is that the applicant must have resided in India during the last 12 months, and for 11 of the previous 14 years. The bill relaxes this 11-year requirement to six years for persons belonging to the same six religions and three countries.

The bill provides that the registration of Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders may be cancelled if they violate any law.

The primary opposition to the bill is that it makes illegal migrants eligible for citizenship on the basis of religion, which critics say violates the spirit of equality guaranteed under Article 14 of the Indian Constitution.

The CAB has also faced opposition and reservation from many political outfits, including NDA alliance partners over concerns that granting citizenship to foreigners will undermine the ethnic communities living in these regions.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday held discussions with representatives of students' bodies and civil society groups of Assam on the proposed Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), according to news agency PTI.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal was among those who attended the meetings. The groups, including the influential All Assam Students Union, conveyed to the home minister their concerns on the bill and how the proposed legislation could affect the indigenous people of the Northeast, the PTI report added.

-with inputs from PRS Legislative Research

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