The ministry of home affairs has notified the Citizenship Amendment Act's (CAA) rules today. The law makes it easier for Hindu, Sikh, Jain Buddhist, Christian and Parsi refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, to get Indian citizenship.
This comes weeks after union home minister Amit Shah declared that the law would be implemented before the Lok Sabha elections.
The law aims to give citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from these countries who came to India before December 31, 2014. After the law was enacted in 2019, protests had broken out in several parts of the country.
Last month, Amit Shah said that no one can stop the CAA law.
"This will be implemented before the elections...this is the law of the country, no one can stop it, this is set in stone, this is the reality," he had said at an event.
Amit Shah had also said that the CAA was an act of the country. He assured the minorities that the law will not snatch away anyone's citizenship.
“The CAA is an act of the country…It will be notified before the polls. There should be no confusion around it. Minorities in our country, and especially our Muslim community, are being provoked…The CAA cannot snatch away anyone's citizenship because there is no provision in the Act. The CAA is an act to provide citizenship to refugees who were persecuted in Bangladesh and Pakistan,” Shah said while speaking at the ET Now-Global Business summit in Delhi in February.
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