On Monday, the Union home ministry notified the rules for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA over four years after Parliament passed the law to fast-track the citizenship process for non-Muslims, who have entered Bharat from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh before December 31, 2014.
But unfortunately, international news websites gave misleading headlines about the ‘CAA’ that show anti-Bharat narratives and created Hindu phobia. These external forces have created a negative influence on the audience regarding the work done by BJP party but the government always tried to work towards better governance.
There are some international news websites such as BBC, NPR, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Derrick etc that write about Bharat’s progress in a controversial manner.
The website particularly talks about the role of the ruling government in eliminating Muslims from Bharat and terms the step to be controversial. It talks about excluding Muslims, who are a majority in all three nations, according to these anti-Bharat websites.
On one of the websites, it was written that Human rights watchdog Amnesty India labelled the law “discriminatory”. It added, ‘It goes against the constitutional values of equality and international human rights law.” ‘The law legitimises discrimination based on religion and is exclusionary in its structure and intent’, it said.
Opposition parties such as Congress, TMC and others heavily criticized the law. In one of the content written by NBC, it wrote that Bharat is home to 200 million Muslims, who make up a large minority group in the country of more than 1.4 billion people. It made false allegations that Muslims have been targeted in a series of attacks that have taken place since Modi first assumed power in 2014.
However, the Citizenship Amendment Act provides a fast track to naturalization for Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, and Christians who fled to Hindu-majority Bharat from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan before December 31, 2014. The law was approved by the Bharatiya Parliament in 2019.
Why CAA is necessary?
The CAA will benefit thousands of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, or Christian migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan who entered Bharat before December 31, 2014, and seek citizenship of Bharat.
The CAA aims to give citizenship to the target group of migrants despite if they don’t have valid travel documents as mandated in The Citizenship Act, 1955. The CAA presumes that members of these communities who entered Bharat faced religious persecution in these countries.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Amit Shah tweeted on X, ‘delivered on another commitment and realized the promise of the makers of our constitution to the Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians living in those countries’.
Meanwhile, the Union Home Ministry notified the rules for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA over four years after Parliament passed the law to fast-track the citizenship process for non-Muslims, who have entered Bharat from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh before December 31, 2014.
‘The complete process for eligible people to submit applications for Bharatiya citizenship under the law will be online, said the officials.
The rules have been framed months after Union Home Minister Amit Shah promised that this will be done before the 2024 national polls due this summer. Parliament passed the CAA on December 11, 2019, and the law was notified within 24 hours.
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