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TopicCitizenship Amendment Act

Topic: Citizenship Amendment Act

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.

Govt scared of students, academicians: Ex-Maharashtra CM Chavan on Ram Guha’s detention

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Noted historian Ramachandra Guha was detained in Bengaluru on Thursday along with several others who defied prohibitory orders to protest against the newly amended Citizenship Act.

Modi govt reaches out to Muslim clerics to appeal for peace as India protests citizenship law

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Minority commission & minority affairs ministry have asked clerics to tell the community the law is not anti-Muslim & there’s nothing to worry about.

Delhi protesters defy Section 144 to march against citizenship law, hundreds detained

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Authorities impose Section 144 in several parts of Delhi, shuts metro stations and suspends mobile services, but large crowds still turn up to protest.

Violent anti-CAA protests break out in Lucknow, police use tear-gas to disperse crowds

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A mob pelted stones and torched vehicles parked outside a police post in Lucknow during protests against the new citizenship law.

Samajwadi Party and Congress MLAs defy Section 144 in UP, hold protests against CAA

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Opposition leaders held protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act at the legislative assembly complex in Lucknow even as prohibitory orders remained imposed in the state.

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HRD minister Pokhriyal asks parties to keep academic institutions away from their politics

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On a day students gathered to protest the citizenship law, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' said they are a priority of the Modi govt which is working 'for their better future'.

Kashmir, citizenship law figure in talks between Jaishankar & Pompeo during 2+2 meet in US

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In his meeting with Jaishankar as part of the 2+2 dialogue, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo highlights the ‘need to protect religious freedom’.

Cricket, hijab, language: How the British, French and Americans conduct citizenship tests

Shailja Sharma -
In any cricket match between England and a South Asian team, if Indians and Pakistanis cheered for non-English teams, they were accused of disloyalty.

Liberal, secular opposition to CAA must not allow room for Islamic and Left radicals

Rupa Subramanya -
Legitimate questions about Modi govt’s new citizenship law can be raised only when India’s liberal class hasn’t caved into religious chauvinism of another kind.
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