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What are the advantages of CAA Act?
The CAA facilitates the claiming of citizenship by illegal non-Muslim immigrants or other persons who are unable to provide proof of residence. In India, all citizens, including the 175 million Muslims (14 percent of India’s total population), enjoy the same rights.
What is the Citizenship Act What is CAA discuss its pros and cons?
The Act provides to give homage to the people belonging to six communities mentioned above who are religiously persecuted in their countries. 6. It not violative of the right to equality. The Act still provides citizenship to every foreigner of any religion to get citizenship by way of registration or naturalisation.
What is the citizenship Act What is CAA discuss its pros and cons?
What is Citizenship Amendment Act?
The Act has amended the Citizenship Act, 1955 to give eligibility for Indian citizenship to illegal migrants who are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, and who entered India on or before 31 December 2014. The Act does not mention Muslims.
What is the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA)?
The Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 aims to make changes in the Citizenship Act, the Passport Act, and the Foreigners Act if the illegal migrants belong to religious minority communities from three neighbouring countries of Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Features of CAA 2019
What is CAA and how does it affect Indian citizenship?
All Indian citizens enjoy the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution of India. CAA is not meant to deprive any Indian citizen of his citizenship. Rather it is a special law to enable certain foreigners facing a particular situation in three neighbouring countries to get Indian citizenship.
What are the provisions of the Citizenship Act of India?
The provisions with the best of their interpretation allow every person irrespective of religion to get citizenship of India. The amendment of 2019 only seeks to help the people who are religiously persecuted in the three Islamic countries they are living in. It doesn’t affect the rights of Indian citizens at all.
Is the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 a constitutional amendment in India?
The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 is not an amendment in the Indian Constitution, but an amendment in law. It amends the Citizenship Act of 1955. Therefore, it is not a constitutional amendment. Article 11 of the Constitution gives power to the parliament to amend the laws relating to citizenship in the Citizenship Act, 1955.