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RS clears Citizenship Bill
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- Rajya Sabha(RS) recently passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, with 125 votes in favour & 99 against. Current strength of RS is 240.
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- About CAB, 2019
(1) Bill amends the Citizenship Act, 1955.
(2) For the first time, it will grant citizenship on the basis of religion to non-Muslim communities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, who entered India on or before December 31, 2014.
(3) It was passed by the Lok Sabha already.
(4) All the (Hindu Bengalis) refugees from the then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) who came to West Bengal will be given citizenship- as per Home Minister.
- Questions raised in Parliament as against CAB:
(1) Claims on numbers: how is government planning to get authentic records on the number of persecuted people from the three countries.
(2) Differentiation: how would the government differentiate between illegal migrants & those persecuted on religious grounds.
(3) Why only one religion: had been excluded for according citizenship to illegal immigrants.
Sources
The Hindu