On Thursday, while the rest of India went about their jobs as productive members of society, a bunch of left-liberals descended upon Mumbai’s August Kranti Maidan to protest the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Amending the over-70-year-old Foreigners Order, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued a gazette notification on Friday saying that nationals or persons having their origin to the four countries will have to take permission for even climbing peaks which are “open”.
Supreme Court lawyer Subuhi Khan while speaking to the YouTube channel Public Views India tore apart the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protesters while countering them using facts and logic.
At a time when political parties continue their propaganda against Citizenship Amendment Act, maliciously including the National Register of Citizens with it and creating baseless fear among Indian Muslims citizens, the government of India has come up with a set of questions and answers on the NRC.
On Tuesday, the Foreigners Division of the Home Ministry issued an office memorandum directing relevant government agencies and airlines that OCI card holders not between 20 and 50 year of age and who have renewed their passport can travel to India as long as they also have in their possession their old cancelled passport.
A highly placed source in the BSF told The Sunday Guardian, “The reverse migration of illegal Bangladeshis has increased in the last few days. We have information that every day, people are crossing over to Bangladesh and they are using the porous border in North 24 Parganas area of Basirhat and Bongaon, and the border in Nadia district to cross over. Some reports are also coming in from Malda in West Bengal.”
NRC is the National Register of Citizens. The NRC identified and eliminated illegal immigrants from Assam on the Supreme Court’s order. This has been a state-specific exercise to keep its ethnic uniqueness unaltered
Harish Salve, one of India’s biggest names in national and international law, has stated that the Citizenship Amendment Bill is not anti-Muslim and it does not violate the Articles 14, 15 and 21 of Indian constitution as being claimed by naysayers.
Panun Kashmir, an organisation of Kashmiri migrant pandits, on Sunday welcomed the passing of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in both houses of parliament and said that the “entire nation stands wholeheartedly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi”.
During the meeting, Prime Minister Modi reviewed the progress of work done and gave some suggestions for cleaning the Ganga river. Giving more information about the meeting Environment Minister Prakash Javdekar said that the Prime Minister also suggested innovative ideas to clean river Ganga.
