Muslims among 4,000 granted citizenship in last 6 years: Home Ministry
Muslims among 4,000 granted citizenship in last 6 years: Home Ministry The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill has been in public domain since 2016. It was cleared by a 30-member parliamentary committee consisting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members. Current Affairs :Almost 4,000 individuals from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, many them Muslims, have been given Indian citizenship in the previous six years, a senior Home Ministry official said on Wednesday. The exposure came in the midst of fights, some of them fierce, in various pieces of the nation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which tries to concede Indian citizenship to non-Muslim transients from these three neighboring nations. Upwards of 2,830 individuals from Pakistan, 912 from Afghanistan and 172 from Bangladesh have been given Indian citizenship in the previous six years and several them were Muslims, the authority stated, including that such vagrants will keep on getting Indian citizenship on the off...