‘This bill is for the children of Partition who are still subject to inhuman barbarism because they profess a faith rooted in India.‘‘If India fails them, we shall be no better than a Pakistan which brutalises its minorities and has turned into a factory of intolerant bigots,‘ says former BJP MP Tarun Vijay. IMAGE: Members […]
Indian Union Muslim League moved the Supreme Court Thursday challenging the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, saying it violates the fundamental Right to Equality of the Constitution and intends to grant citizenship to a section of illegal immigrants by making an exclusion on the basis of religion. IMAGE: Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad members participate in a […]
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday rejected the Opposition‘s charge that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was anti-Muslim, saying it does not take away the citizenship of any Indian Muslim and only seeks to given the same to persecuted minorities of three neighbouring countries. He was replying to the debate in Rajya Sabha on the […]
IMAGE: Hindu refugees from Pakistan celebrate after Lok Sabha passes the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, at Majnu Ka Teela in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photograph: ANI Photo When Sona Das, 42, left his home in Pakistan‘s Hyderabad and came to Delhi on a cold winter night in 2011, he did not know what would become of […]
A federal United States commission on international religious freedom has said that the Citizenship Amendment Bill is a “dangerous turn in wrong direction” and sought American sanctions against Home Minister Amit Shah if the bill is passed by both houses of the Indian Parliament. According to the proposed legislation, members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, […]