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Citizenship and NRC

of Assam

Two issues

citizenship
→
Register of citizens
National Citizenship ( Amendment ) Bill
,
2016

published by Assam gout seeks to

grant
citizenship to

to minorities from Bangladesh

grants ,
Pak , Afghanistan
who who entered India
illegal migrants have have
illegal y
entered India before 24 ,
March
1971

→ Issue
↳ Assam always objected
to the influx of illegal
migrants from Bangladesh

→ NRC ?
↳ it has the details
of all citizens in the
Bangladesh
state .

it is to Assam
→
unique
↳ Present NRC meant
the
to screen illegal
immigrants entered into the state after 2415 March 1971

→ Background
After years of mass protest and violence ,
the Assam Peace
accord signed between the
was Rajiv Gandhi govt AASU ,

and Assam Gana sangram Parishad In 1985 to deport

illegal migrants and stop illegal migration from Bangladesh

→ In 2009 ,
based on a petition sc directed the state to complete
the HRC
updation

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→ Concerns

→
tedious verification process and chances of exclusion
violence broke out attempts to update
→ during previous NRC

→
challenges related to deportation

however
→
the
Citizenship C Amendment ) Bill 2016 grants citizenship
to minorities from Bangladesh who entered even after the
cutoff date
the
of NRC

→
the process may even affect India -

Bangladesh relationship

issues of chakmas and Hajongs

Indian decided
→ the
gout has to
grant Citizenship to chakmas
and Hajongs refugees they were .
the inhabitants of Chittagong
hill tracts of Bangladesh

→ Chakmas Hajongs
→ Buddhists → Hindus

→ speaks Bengali assamese → speaks Tibet Burman written

in Assamese

→ status
→ in 2005 ,
EC issued guidelines to include them in electoral rolls
→
Complying
with the sc Order of 2015 ,
centre decided to
grant
citizenship to chakmas and
Aajongs

→ concerns

→ Opposition by Arunachal Pradesh

indegenous
tribal the
→
fear among the
opportunities
people that move

will affect their

→ sons of the soil politics

Citizenship C Amendment) Bill 2016

→ features
→ Provides citizenships to religious minorities C hindus ,
Sikhs , parsis ,

budhists gains and

,
Christians ) from Pakistan , Bangladesh
and
Afghanistan

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These treated
→ people will not be as illegal immigrants for
ihe
purpose of citizenship even
If they do not posses
valid documents
years of residency
to
→ the minimum is India apply for
citizenship to be lessened from 11
years to 6
years for
these people

→ concerns

→
It
grants citizenship on the basis of religion which Is against
our Constitutional values
→ It is contradictory to the provisions of NRC of Assam
→ the bill Is
discriminatory and violates Article 14 of Constitution
the
→
gout of Assam and Meghalaya openly opposed
the Bill
the
→
Bill does not
differentiate between migrants and refugees .

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