NEW DELHI, March 11 — India announced rules today to implement a 2019 citizenship law that critics call anti-Muslim, weeks before Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a rare third...
The Citizenship Amendment Act grants Indian nationality to Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who fled to Hindu-majority India from Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan before December 31, 2014. — AFP picNEW DELHI, March 11 — India announced rules today to implement a 2019 citizenship law that critics call anti-Muslim, weeks before Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a rare third term for his Hindu nationalist government.
Modi’s government had not crafted implementation rules for the law, after protests and sectarian violence broke out in New Delhi and elsewhere within weeks of the law’s December 2019 enactment. Scores were killed and hundreds injured during days of clashes.This will pave way for the persecuted to find citizenship in India,” he said, referring to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s 2019 election manifesto.
It says the law is meant to grant citizenship, not take it away from anyone, and has called the earlier protests politically motivated.
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