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Opposition MPs have started shouting and protesting after BJP MP Dilip Ghosh's address in the Lok Sabha. Owaisi tears up the bill in parliament. NCP MP Supriya Sule requests the Home Minister to withdraw the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019.
The Samajwadi Party has opposed the CAB, calling it uncontitutional. Meanwhile, TRS has issued a whip against all its members to vote against the Bill.
Amit Shah Introduces Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in Parliament.
Voting begins in Lok Sabha on Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019. The Bill, which seeks to give Indian nationality to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan facing religious persecution there, was introduced in Lower House by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday. According to the proposed legislation, members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities, who have come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, till December 31, 2014 and facing religious persecution there will not be treated as illegal immigrants but given Indian citizenship.
"When Indira Gandhi cited Article 14 to bring in people from Bangladesh, then why not Pakistan. Even people from Uganda from taken in. Why not UK? Over the years, India has absorbed so many people from around the world. But it's not the case elsewhere. Look at US green card; it's got such strict norms," says Amit Shah while speaking on Citizenship Amendment Bill in Lok Sabha.
"The Citizenship Amendment Bill is divisive and unconstitutional, it violates article 14 of the constitution. This law is against everything our founding fathers including Dr.Ambedkar envisioned," TMC MP Saugata Roy in Lok Sabha.
"Bill violates the basic structural features of the constitution envisioned in the preamble as entitlement of citizenship based on religion is against the secular fabric of the country," says NK Premachandran of Revolutionary Socialist Party as Amit Shah tables Citizenship Amendment in Lok Sabha during Winter Session.
According to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, "... any person belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian community from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan, who entered into India on or before the 31st day of December 2014... shall not be treated as illegal migrants for the purposes of this Act". A large section of people and organisations in the Northeast have opposed the bill, saying it will nullify the provisions of the Assam Accord of 1985, which fixed March 24, 1971 as the cut-off date for deportation of all illegal immigrants irrespective of religion. "If Indian citizenship is accorded to those already in the state, more Bangladeshis will be encouraged to come here. We won't accept CAB that violates the Assam Accord," said the leader of the AASU that was one of the signatories of the Accord signed in presence of then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.