The Assam Accord has now become, in a word, a trash document....
Digital Desk: The Assam Accord, signed in exchange for the 855 sacrifices and a six-year-long battle, became meaningless after the Prime Minister's Office on Monday announced that the Citizenship Amendment Act would be implemented across the country.
The Assam Accord has now become, in a word, a trash document. Article 5 of the Assam Accord clearly states that persons who came to Assam after March 25, 1971, shall be considered foreigners and shall be deported from Assam.
Article 5 of the Assam Accord, which served as a strong pillar for the deportation of those people regardless of their religion, has now become obsolete. According to the Citizenship Amendment Act, citizenship will be granted to people of six religions who entered India before December 31, 2014. They will now enjoy all the same benefits as Indian citizens. Such provisions of the Citizenship Amendment Act, therefore, clearly violated the Assam Accord. This is a misfortune for the people of Assam.
The Citizenship Amendment Act is an Act passed by the Parliament of India on December 11, 2019. The Act is intended to amend the Citizenship Act of 1955. The Act seeks to grant Indian citizenship to illegal immigrants from the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Persian, and Christian communities of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Indian law includes religious identity as a condition of citizenship for the first time.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had promised in its previous election manifesto that it would grant citizenship to Hindu minorities persecuted in neighbouring countries once it came to power.
According to the amended Act, people of these religions must have entered India before December 31, 2014, and be victims of "religious persecution" or threatened with religious persecution abroad because they are minorities. Then they can get Indian citizenship.
According to the Citizenship Act of 1955, a person was required to stay in India for 11 years. The new amendment changed at that time. The period of 11 years has been reduced to 5 years for specific 6 religions from the above countries.
Earlier, the Citizenship Act of India, 1995, did not allow citizenship to be granted based on religion. According to the Citizenship Act of 1955, a person must have resided in India for at least 11 years and one month continuously to become a citizen of India. The amendment reduces the term from eleven years to five years.
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