Just as the government has simplified the framework for Overseas Citizens of India, it can determine a clear basis to establish the citizenship of Indians in India.
At conclave on ‘One Nation-One Election, Federalism and Citizenship’, former Election Commissioner raised several points regarding special intensive revision of electoral rolls.
Can absence of name from electoral roll be reason to deny citizen rights unrelated to an election? SC said in May that SIR is not a conclusive adjudication of citizenship.
The ministry said that an Indian passport, despite being issued by Government of India after extensive scrutiny, is fundamentally a travel document, not a conclusive proof of citizenship.
Citing national security and electoral integrity concerns, the plea has alleged that Aadhaar is being misused as proof of citizenship for electoral roll registration.
Single citizenship was central to Constitution from the very beginning & the law has been tested a few times in past. Gandhi’s case, however, leaves plenty of unanswered questions.
Radio host Michael Savage alleges current system is being exploited through 'birth tourism'. MEA says comments do not reflect reality of India-US ties'.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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