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.
If one sows wind, he will reap whirlwind. Start protest, and then blame the police. Also, why do these people bring young children and school boys to protest areas? What are the police supposed to do, when unlawful assembly occurs. Suck of lollypop?
It’s already challenged in court, why so much rush to protest & let hooligan spoil genuine protest.
Kindly have patience, don’t let violent protestor take the rein
It was all becoming very one sided. No longer. A reality check.