CAA, NRC 'may affect status' of Muslims in India: US Congressional report

CAA, NRC 'may affect status' of Muslims in India: US Congressional report

Current Affairs:The changed Citizenship law alongside a National Register of Citizens (NRC) being arranged by the Narendra Modi government “may influence the status” of Muslim minority in India, a report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has said.
The December 18 report likewise said that without precedent for autonomous India’s history, a strict paradigm has been added to the nation’s naturalization procedure.
The CRS is a free research wing of the US Congress which gets ready reports occasionally on issues of local and worldwide significance for the administrators to take educated choice. These are not considered as authentic reports of the US Congress.
“Pair with a National Register of Citizens (NRC) arranged by the central government, the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) may influence the status of India’s enormous Muslim minority of approximately 200 million,” said the CRS in its first since forever report on the changed Citizenship law.
As indicated by the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, non-Muslim exiles who came to India till December 31, 2014, to escape strict abuse in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will be given Indian citizenship.

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