Centre May Notify Citizenship Amendment Act Tonight

New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry is likely to issue a notification later on Monday to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) passed by Parliament in 2019.

It comes a month after Union Home Minister Amit Shah had said that the CAA would be implemented before the Lok Sabha elections this year. “CAA will come into effect before the election and nobody should be confused about this,” Shah had said at an event in Delhi.

The CAA was passed four years back amid opposition from different parties and violent protests across the country. More than a 100 people were reportedly killed at the time.

The Citizenship Act of 1955 was amended as CAA to provide Indian citizenship to migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who belong to Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Parsi, Buddhist and Christian communities and had entered India on or before December 31, 2014, due to religious persecution in their home countries.

The CAA will be helpful for refugees from these neighbouring countries, who don’t have documents.

The regulations are prepared and an online portal is ready for registration, sources told news agency IANS.