The Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA, is a law passed by the Indian Parliament in 2019. It aims to amend the country’s citizenship laws, defines illegal immigrants and lays down the rules and prerequisites for applying for Indian citizenship. It allows minorities of six communities, namely Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians, from India’s neighboring countries — Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Bangladesh — who entered India before 31 December 2014 to get citizenship more easily on the grounds of religious persecution.
The introduction of this bill led to mass protests from students, civil society, and the opposition parties as religion for the first time was made a test of Indian citizenship. The most notable was a 100-plus day protest in Shaheen Bagh, a working-class Muslim neighbourhood in the country’s capital, New Delhi with Muslim women at the forefront of this protest.
Four years after the CAA’s initial introduction and passing, the rules were brought into effect in March 2024.
Reporting of passage of resolution against CAA by a municipal committee in USA is surprising headline. Does it has got any legitimacy or validity as for as powers of India s Parliament to make , amend, rescind any existing law, or provision of Indian Constitution derived from the Constitution of India which “we the people of india has given to ourselves…” is concerned.?? Why media wants to create hype ? what is their locus standi in matters strictly concerning the India s internal matters ? I think the people of west have not come out out their hibernation of being “though art the ruler of India s destiny …. . And our Indian media is still in the habit of seeking guidance and approval from oiur erst while Gora rulers. Wake up seven decades have gone by. We are a free nation. Free to legislate, free to govern our nation. The great poet whose song for welcoming British Sovereign on visit to India was adopted as National anthem also wrote “Where the mind is without fear …..