Citizenship Amendment Bill
2 articles on India Vote Kar are tagged “Citizenship Amendment Bill”, published between September 2019 and December 2019. They are filed mainly under BSP, news. They are listed below, newest first, followed by related coverage and topics.
Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019: US commission seeks sanctions against Amit Shah
A US federal commission on international religious freedom has said Washington should consider sanctioning Home Minister Amit Shah and other senior Indian leaders if both Houses of Parliament pass the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, calling the measure a “dangerous turn in the wrong direction”. The commission’s statement In a statement issued on Monday, the commission, known as USCIRF, said it was deeply troubled that the Lok Sabha had passed the Bill, introduced by Shah, because of its religious criterion. It alleged that the Bill creates a route to citizenship for immigrantsRead More
BJP MLA From Meerut Seeks NRC in Uttar Pradesh in Letter to Amit Shah
Satya Prakash Agarwal, a BJP MLA from Meerut, has written to Home Minister Amit Shah asking for the National Register of Citizens (NRC) to be implemented in Uttar Pradesh. In the letter, he alleged that more than one lakh illegal migrants are living in the state, causing what he described as a “social imbalance”. The MLA’s claims Agarwal wrote that the situation in Meerut was deeply troubling and alleged that infiltrators were dominating the area and were involved in criminal and communal activity. He further claimed there were at leastRead More
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