The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, offers Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians if they entered India from the 3 close countries on or before New Year’s Eve, 2014.

The bill seeks to amend the Citizenship Act of 1955 however is probably going to tend protests within the north-eastern region that has long complained of Associate in Nursing inflow of ineligible immigrants and opposed a previous version of the bill earlier this year.

The government aforementioned the draft bill was aimed toward 3 goals: equity, answerableness, and innovation; which the bill would apply to those individuals “who were forced or compelled to hunt shelter in India thanks to maltreatment on the bottom of faith or concern of such maltreatment in his country”. The planned legislation treats spiritual minority teams UN agency ask for refuge in India as “deemed citizens”.

 The draft bill says all criminal cases against them for ineligible migration can stand abated and that they are deemed to be Associate in Nursing Indian subject from the date of their entry into the country. Such individuals are planted, voters.

In addition, the quantity of years needed for getting planted citizenship of India is planned to be reduced from these eleven years to 5 years.

The draft bill conjointly empowers the govt. to withdraw someone’s Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) standing if they violate any provision of the new Citizenship Act or provisions of the other law.

The protesters feel that the draft bill can dilute the state Accord that guarantees deportation of any ineligible foreigners UN agency arrived once March twenty-four, 1971, every day before the war of liberation in East Pakistan began. The AASU and thirty different organizations aforementioned they’re going to hold demonstrations against the bill.

Groups in Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh aforementioned they’re going to be part of the protests. “Wear against the bill. The move to exempt some areas is a trial to divide the individuals of north-east,” aforementioned Haw Bowing, president of the All Arunachal Pradesh Students Union.